Description: Vulgar Beauty : Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium, Paperback by Zuo, Mila, ISBN 1478018119, ISBN-13 9781478018117, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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 Chinese-ness. 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"--
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Book Title: Vulgar Beauty : Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Vulgar Beauty : Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Women's Studies, Film / History & Criticism
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Mila Zuo
Subject Area: Performing Arts, Social Science
Item Width: 6.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
