Description: PorterMonkey presents ... Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium ISBN:1478018119 Author:Zuo, Mila Publisher:Duke University Press Books Release Date:2022-03-11 Seller Category:THEATER, DANCE, PERFORMING ART Qty Available:1 Condition:Used: Very Good Sku: 1VG091124ptG2 Notes: Clean, unmarked interior text, no highlighting, underlining or writing. Softcover book is clean and bright, shows light edge, corner, shelf wear. No rips, chips, stains or tears. Binding is solid, square. Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium. Duke Univ Press. 2022. Mila Zuo. Ships quickly and with care. Description:In Vulgar Beauty Mila Zuo offers a new theorization of cinematic feminine beauty by showing how mediated encounters with Chinese film and popular culture stars produce feelings of Chineseness. To illustrate this, Zuo uses the vulgar as an analytic to trace how racial, gendered, and cultural identity is imagined and produced through affect. She frames the vulgar as a characteristic that is experienced through the Chinese concept of weidao, or flavor, in which bitter, salty, pungent, sweet, and sour performances of beauty produce non-Western forms of sexualized and racialized femininity. Analyzing contemporary film and media ranging from actress Gong Li’s post-Mao movies of the late 1980s and 1990s to Joan Chen’s performance in Twin Peaks to Ali Wong’s stand-up comedy specials, Zuo shows how vulgar beauty disrupts Western and colonial notions of beauty. Vulgar beauty, then, becomes the taste of difference. By demonstrating how Chinese feminine beauty becomes a cinematic invention invested in forms of affective racialization, Zuo makes a critical reconsideration of aesthetic theory. Don't forget to check out other great deals in our eBay Store!!
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Book Title: Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium
Era: 1980s. 1990s
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Genre: Gender Studies, Social Studies,
Topic: Film, film. culture, asia, Criticism, Gender studies
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Intended Audience: Adults
Original Language: English
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Vulgar Beauty : Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium
Publisher: Duke University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Women's Studies, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year: 2022
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Mila Zuo
Subject Area: Performing Arts, Social Science
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
