Gay & Lesbian Studies

Meimei Xu Cinema in China prior to WWI

A Case Study of West-Eastern Culture Transfer

Berlin, 2020 . 290 p ., 4 fig . col ., 2 fig . b/w, 5 tables .

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This book looks at the earliest history of exhibiting firms in China at the turn of the century . The spread of cinema in China as a continuation of the lantern tradition is contextualized and conventionalized in the late Qing sociopolitical milieu, featuring a strong foreign monopoly and regional imbalance . However, the key element for cinema’s development in China is Chinese audience per se . “The book has produced something truly remarkable and tremendous .” —Frank Bren “The work offers a lot of new insights into the history of the cinema in China . Though the film business was brought from abroad to the mainland, the candidate was never nationalistic in her approach to the phenomenon of foreign entertainment in China .” —Wolfgang Kubin

“The author painstakingly combed through a large number of historical newspapers, especially English-language newspapers published both in and outside China, and pieced together a convincing picture of the earliest history of Chinese cinema .” —Xuelei Huang D. Travers Scott Gay Men and Feminist Women in the Fight for Equality

“What Did You Do During the Second Wave, Daddy?”

New York, 2020 . X, 224 pp . Cultural Media Studies. Vol. 2

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What did gay men do in women’s liberation—and vice-versa? This book offers the first systematic investigation of the question . Conventional wisdom has offered varied and contradictory stories: Gay men were misogynistic enemies of feminism; feminist women were homophobic or androphobic; feminist women and gay men collaborated only during the 1960s-1970s liberation moment; lesbians rushed in to work with gay men during the AIDS crisis . Examined for the first time in this book, their stories are much more complex, yesterday and today . Feminist women and gay men have had dynamic relations in popular thinking and historic practice, including commonality, opposition, and intellectual contributions . Written by a feminist-identified gay man, this book forges an examination of these two groups’ alliances and obstacles over the past 50 years, as well as their communications of, between, and about each other . What have been the received views of how these groups have or have not worked together politically? What historical evidence supports, contradicts, or complicates these views? New findings help illuminate understandings of the past and present of US women’s and LGBTQ movements, as well as broader relations between social movements in general . With a special focus on neglected areas of research, such as the US South, it also argues for how these social movements shaped ideas about what it means to be gay and/or feminist . This book is suitable in whole or excerpt for classes in LGBTQ studies, women’s studies, feminist theory, social movements, American studies, and US history .