Farewell My Concubine: A Queer Film Classic

by Helen Hok-Sze Leung

Overview

A Queer Film Classic: a consideration of Chen Kaige's acclaimed 1992 film set in the mid-twentieth century about two male Peking opera stars and the woman who comes between them, all set against the political turmoil of a China in transition. The film's treatment of gender performance and homosexuality was a first in Chinese cinema, and the subject of much controversy there. The movie, which helped to bring contemporary Chinese films onto the world stage, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival (the first Chinese film to do so), and it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781551523620
Publisher:	Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited
Publication date:	11/30/2010
Series:	Queer Film Classics Series
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Helen Hok-Sze Leung: Helen Hok-Sze Leung is an Associate Professor in Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies at Simon Fraser Universityin Burnaby, BC, Canada. She has published widely on queer cinema and is the author of Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong (UBC Press, 2008).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 11

Synopsis 15

Credits 18

1 Evolution of a Sacrifice: From the Battlefield to the Big Screen 21

2 In Close-Up: Anatomy of a Film 49

3 Queer Afterlives: New Takes On A Classic 83

Appendix 117

References 123

Index 127