An Amorous Prehistory of Hong Kong Queer Cinema
Abstract
Depiction of homoerotic relationships among women in commercial costumed films was
a unique phenomenon in 1970s - 1980s Hong Kong cinema. What are the possible cinematic
meanings of lesbian images that we can perceive in these films? How should we evaluate
the exact representation of a sexuality that had been perceived as deviant in that
society? In this essay, I close-read homoerotic scenes and trace through the trajectories
of cultural and industrial changes enabling the emergence of two representative films:
Intimate Confessions of A Chinese Courtesan (1972) and An Amorous Woman of Tang Dynasty
(1984). I do this with a continuous concern for historical context in order to provide
an in-depth understanding of how lesbian images are constructed in cinema.
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Zhao, Manjun (2016). An Amorous Prehistory of Hong Kong Queer Cinema. Master's thesis, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/12386.Collections
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