Challenge in Creating LGBT Films as Consciousness-raising Art: On Zero Chou''s Rainbow Series
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Lin, Jou-Yi
Abstract
Exploring contemporary Taiwan cinema, we find a number of LGBT films that echo the rise of LGBT movement in recent years. The main purpose of this thesis is to inquire how narrative films as mainstream mass media could challenge the heteronormative paradigm and promote LGBT movement. The study takes Zero Chow, a Taiwanese lesbian director, as an example, to analyze closely three works of her “rainbow series”: Splendid Float (2004), Spider Lilies (2007), and Drifting Flowers (2008). By using David Bordwell’s poetics of cinema as the theoretical framework and film narrative theory as analytical method, the research examines how Chow employs strategies of cinematic representation to question and/or negotiate with dominant gender ideologies and in so doing changes the ways audiences understand sexual minorities. The research results show the complicated relationships between the director’s intentions to contribute to Taiwan’s LGBT movement, box office concerns, and the politics of representation when making these well-meaning films.
Subjects
臺灣同志電影, 電影詩學, 周美玲, 同志運動, 再現政治
Type
thesis
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