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Film Studies
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Regardless of how successful the Fifth Generation and New Taiwan cinemas have been in the international film milieu, this (limited) recognition usually is based on two aspects: the formal or the exotic. Their works are praised as highly formally innovative (in other words, how well the have mastered the new-wave visual language of the West -- thus, our modernist language) or exotic (as revealing the mystery of an inscrutable Other). This may explain why in the United States, mainland, Hong Kong,
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― Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Mainland China
― Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Mainland China
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the actresses who played female boys were of all ages and performed in a vari-
ety of acting styles, they were generally small, thin, white, and photogenic, and
their performances combined boldness and vulnerability. Their femaleness al-
lowed them to convey fragility and androgynous beauty. These performances
demonstrate that cross-gender casting, which may seem like an inherently
transgressive practice to twenty-first-century scholars, can also uphold conser-
vative gender, class
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― Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
― Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
