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Entangled Media Practices of Asian Cinema: Chinese Female Directors in the Z-Generation Era (91414)
Session Chair: Mico Poonoosamy
This presentation will be live-streamed via Zoom (Online Access)
Friday, 16 May 2025 14:05
Session: Session 3
Room: Live-Stream Room 1
Presentation Type: Live-Stream Presentation
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This research examines how Chinese female directors' entangled media practices and nomadic feminist expressions have facilitated the development of new paradigms in Asian cinema during the Z-Generation era. Through critical analysis of their distinctive creative approaches, this study elucidates how these directors' works contribute to contemporary Asian cinema's evolving aesthetic and cultural dialogues. The research conceptualizes Chinese female directors as significant agents in Asian cinema's expanding creative territories, particularly through their innovative synthesis of local specificities and transnational aesthetics. The unprecedented digital connectivity and social consciousness of the Z-Generation era have catalyzed distinctive modes of cinematic expression. During this period, Chinese female directors have emerged as vital cultural mediators, articulating narratives that integrate traditional Chinese elements with global feminist discourses. Their entangled media practices and nomadic feminist perspectives generate multilayered narratives that reconceptualize the possibilities of Asian cinema, establishing new frameworks for understanding cultural production in the digital age. This study analyzes how these directors' works advance Asian cinema's contemporary discourse by cultivating fluid connections between regional identity and global film practices. Their innovative approaches to entangled media and nomadic feminist expression offer critical insights into how Z-Generation consciousness is reconfiguring Asian cinema's aesthetic and cultural landscapes, contributing to new theoretical understandings of gender, generation, and cultural production in contemporary film practice.
Authors:
Xuan Qiao, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
Huey Fen Cheong, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
Thanalachime Perumal, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
About the Presenter(s)
Xuan Qiao is a PhD student at the University of Malaya in the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics.
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