New Image of Chinese Women on the Screen-Based on the Film Sunny Sister

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10.2991/978-2-38476-004-6_72How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Sunny Sister; Male gaze; feminism; Chinese women; patriarchy

Abstract

Under the influence of the MeToo feminist movement, the Chinese film industry has also begun to produce films with feminist themes. Sunny Sisters is a film produced by Chinese male director Bao Beier in 2021. This is a film about the friendship of seven girls. Therefore, this paper will explore whether the image of the female character in Sunny Sister has been influenced by a wave of feminism. Sunny Sister has fundamentally changed the way in which the male director shot women and his ideology. This paper will analyze the image of the female character in Sunny Sister based on Laura Mulvey's theory of the male gaze and the semiotics of film. Through the image of women in the film, it is concluded that the filming of women by male directors has changed under the influence of the feminist movement. Despite their feminist overtones, these images of women are still the product of a patriarchal ideology.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zexin Zhang
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/03/01
TI  - New Image of Chinese Women on the Screen-Based on the Film Sunny Sister
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 588
EP  - 595
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-004-6_72
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-004-6_72
ID  - Zhang2023
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