Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-136). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 1995. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 192-220).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006.

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Gao Yang. / Thesis submitted in: June 2005. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-133). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / GENDER AND NATIONALISM IN CHINESE FILMS BETWEEN 1949 AND 1989 --- p.I / 摘要 --- p.III / ABBREVIATIONS --- p.VIII / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Literature Review --- p.2 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- "Nation, State and Nationalism" --- p.2 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- Gender and Nation in Chinese Cinematic Narration --- p.6 / Chapter 1.2 --- Methodology --- p.10 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Typology --- p.10 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Film Analysis as Method --- p.11 / Chapter 1.2.3 --- Case Selection --- p.16 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- SOCIAL BACKGROUND OF CHINA: 1949-1989 --- p.22 / Chapter 2.1 --- Background of the First Period:1949-1978 --- p.22 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- "New China, New Women" --- p.22 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- The Cooperative Movement and the Communization Movement:1952- --- p.24 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- The Great Leap Forward and the Suppression of Individualism:1958-1960 --- p.26 / Chapter 2.1.4 --- The Magnification of Class Struggle and the Cultural Revolution --- p.28 / Chapter 2.1.5 --- The Unchanged Philosophy behind the Changing Policies: the Strategic Opening Up of Public Domain for Women --- p.30 / Chapter 2.2 --- Economic and Political Landscape after the Cultural Revolution: 1979-1989 --- p.31 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Economic Reform and the Concomitant Social Problems --- p.31 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Political Liberalization and the Backlashes --- p.32 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- "The ""Cultural Fever"" and the ""Fifth Generation"" Filmmakers" --- p.33 / Chapter 2.2.3.1 --- Collective Frustration: The Social Sentiment after the National Trauma --- p.33 / Chapter 2.2.3.1.1 --- Traumatic Experiences during the Cultural Revolution --- p.33 / Chapter 2.2.3.1.2 --- The Lost Past --- p.36 / Chapter 2.2.3.1.3 --- The Meaningless Present --- p.36 / Chapter 2.2.3.2 --- The Specter of Westernization --- p.37 / Chapter 2.2.3.2.1 --- "The ""Anti-Wholesale Westernization"" Campaign" --- p.37 / Chapter 2.2.3.2.2 --- "New Social Crisis and the Nationalism behind ""Anti- Wholesale Westernization""" --- p.38 / Chapter 2.2.3.3 --- The Fifth Generation in the Cultural Fever and the Root-Searching Movement --- p.40 / Chapter 2.2.4 --- Shifts of Women's Issues in the Reform Era --- p.44 / Chapter 2.2.4.1 --- Women and Labor under the Economic Reform --- p.44 / Chapter 2.2.4.2 --- Femininity in Flux --- p.45 / Chapter 2.2.4.3 --- The Representation of Women --- p.46 / Chapter 2.2.4.3.1 --- Women in the Public Space ´ؤ Discourse and Visuality --- p.46 / Chapter 2.2.4.3.2 --- Women and the Nation in Representation --- p.47 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- CLASSIC REVOLUTIONARY FILMS --- p.49 / Chapter 3.1 --- "Ghost of the Old Society, Master of the New State, a Case Study of The White- Haired Girl" --- p.50 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Gender Conflicts in the Form of Class Confrontations --- p.51 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- The Fading Female Sexuality in the Evolving Adaptations of the Story --- p.52 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- Male Desire and Male Sexuality --- p.53 / Chapter 3.1.4 --- The Reason behind the Desexualization of both Sexes --- p.54 / Chapter 3.1.5 --- State Feminism: Where Will Women's Liberation Led to? --- p.55 / Chapter 3.2 --- Gender Dynamics and Socialist Discourse in Xie Jin's The Red Detachment of Women --- p.56 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- "Sexuality, Body and the Inscription of Class Struggle" --- p.57 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- The Myth of Class and Class Struggle in the Construction of Nationalism --- p.58 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Constructing Class and Nation in Collective Memories --- p.61 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- "The Interpellation of Individuals by “Ideological State Apparatus""" --- p.62 / Chapter 3.3 --- A Comparison between The White-Haired Girl and The Red Detachment of Women --- p.64 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- The Representation of the Daughterhood --- p.64 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- The Representation of the Wifehood --- p.65 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- The Representation of the Motherhood --- p.66 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- Understanding the Differences between the Two Films --- p.67 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- THE FIFTH GENERATION'S FILMS --- p.71 / Chapter 4.1 --- Case Study of Yellow Earth --- p.72 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- "Reading the Reviews, Reading the Film" --- p.72 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- "Class, Gender and Nation in Yellow Earth" --- p.74 / Chapter 4.1.2.1 --- Class and Gender in the Characterization --- p.75 / Chapter 4.1.2.1.1 --- The Invisible and the Visible: Departing from the Socialist Rhetoric of Class Struggle --- p.75 / Chapter 4.1.2.1.1.1 --- No Villain --- p.75 / Chapter 4.1.2.1.1.2 --- No Hero --- p.77 / Chapter 4.1.2.1.1.3 --- The Party's Folksong-Collection and the Peasants' Taciturnity --- p.78 / Chapter 4.1.2.1.1.4 --- The Estrangement between the Party and the Peasantry --- p.80 / Chapter 4.1.2.1.2 --- Gender Images in a Gendered Narration --- p.81 / Chapter 4.1.2.1.2.1 --- The Gender Separation --- p.82 / Chapter 4.1.2.1.2.2 --- The Impossible Romance --- p.83 / Chapter 4.1.2.1.2.3 --- The Refusal and the Death --- p.85 / Chapter 4.1.2.2 --- The Significant Setting in a National Allegory --- p.86 / Chapter 4.1.2.2.1 --- The Natural Landscape --- p.86 / Chapter 4.1.2.2.2 --- The Rituals --- p.87 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- Debates and Awards --- p.89 / Chapter 4.1.3.1 --- Debates --- p.89 / Chapter 4.1.3.2 --- Awards --- p.91 / Chapter 4.2 --- Case Study of Red Sorghum --- p.93 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- An Egalitarian Myth of National Heroes --- p.93 / Chapter 4.2.1.1 --- The Villains --- p.93 / Chapter 4.2.1.2 --- The Heroes --- p.94 / Chapter 4.2.1.3 --- The Ideology of the Body --- p.96 / Chapter 4.2.1.4 --- Carnivals ´ؤ Festive Rituals that Connect the Personal with the National --- p.98 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Rebuilding Desirable Masculinity through Female Sexuality --- p.100 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Red Sorghum ´ؤ Searching Root in a National Allegory --- p.106 / Chapter 4.2.4 --- Debates and Awards --- p.108 / Chapter 4.3 --- Comparing Yellow Earth and Red Sorghum --- p.110 / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- CONCLUSION --- p.114 / Chapter 5.1 --- Before the Cultural Revolution --- p.114 / Chapter 5.2 --- The Cultural Revolution --- p.116 / Chapter 5.3 --- After the Cultural Revolution --- p.117 / Chapter 5.4 --- Conclusion --- p.120

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Communication, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-76).

This study examined gender portrayals in the film, The Crvinq Game. The societal labels for gender, "masculine" and "feminine," are not negative in and of themselves. However, when they are coupled with stereotypes, their power to direct behavior and perception formation can rob people of their freedom to be simply "human." This study primarily focused upon the costs of maintaining, challenging, and abandoning gender role stereotypes as illustrated in The Crvinq Game. Sonja Foss's four-step approach to feminist criticism was used as a tool for examination of this film.By examining the appearances, attitudes, and behaviors of the four central characters in the film, two messages emerged. First, in all four cases, being of a feminine nature was less desirable than being of a masculine nature. Second, Neil Jordan, the film's director, prescribes that all people should transcend the boundaries of gender, and simply allow themselves and others to be human.Jordan's humanistic message also provides insight into expansion of rhetorical methods and theories. Feminist criticism and Queer theory could attempt to transcend the boundaries of gender, and work toward the inclusion of all non-traditional sex roles. / Department of Speech Communication

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, Discipline of English, 2004. / "April 2004" Includes bibliographical references (leaves 211-245). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 255 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-255). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center