Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Remaking the Modern Family -- Gender, Genre and the Auteur -- Ghosts of Chinas Past and Present -- History Repeating in Spring in a Small Town -- Remaking “China” -- Back Matter -- Glossary -- References -- Index.

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In Remaking Gender and the Family , Sarah Woodland examines the complexities of Chinese-language cinematic remakes. With a particular focus on how changes in representations of gender and the family between two versions of the same film connect with perceived socio-cultural, political and cinematic values within Chinese society, Woodland explores how source texts are reshaped for their new audiences. In this book, she conducts a comparative analysis of two pairs of intercultural and two pairs of intracultural films, each chapter highlighting a different dimension of remakes, and illustrating how changes in gender representations can highlight not just differences in attitudes towards gender across cultures, but also broader concerns relating to culture, genre, auteurism, politics and temporality.

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