Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White: Vulnerable Young Girls and Resistance in Contemporary China
Focusing on Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White (2017), this paper uses Judith Butler’s discussion of vulnerability, resistance, and performativity as a theoretical framework to analyse the film’s narrative and directing choices when addressing issues of sexual assault on minors and genders norms in co...
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Focusing on Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White (2017), this paper uses Judith Butler’s discussion of vulnerability, resistance, and performativity as a theoretical framework to analyse the film’s narrative and directing choices when addressing issues of sexual assault on minors and genders norms in contemporary China. The film’s depiction of social inequalities, economic precariousness, corruption, and the construction and performance of femininity demonstrates the way Chinese women are vulnerable to violence – sexual or not – and to gender norms they are expected to conform to, without falling into the trap of paternalism and victimisation.
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| spelling | doaj.art-cb3a5137b82b42ec84b53d4dafc422b92023-12-01T15:28:32ZengFondazione Università Ca’ FoscariAnnali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale2385-30422023-12-0159210.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2023/02/004journal_article_11215Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White: Vulnerable Young Girls and Resistance in Contemporary ChinaReynaud, Bérénice M.0University of Aix-Marseille, France Focusing on Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White (2017), this paper uses Judith Butler’s discussion of vulnerability, resistance, and performativity as a theoretical framework to analyse the film’s narrative and directing choices when addressing issues of sexual assault on minors and genders norms in contemporary China. The film’s depiction of social inequalities, economic precariousness, corruption, and the construction and performance of femininity demonstrates the way Chinese women are vulnerable to violence – sexual or not – and to gender norms they are expected to conform to, without falling into the trap of paternalism and victimisation. http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2023/02/004Chinese art-house cinema. Feminism. Resistance. Sexual assault. Vulnerability |
| spellingShingle | Reynaud, Bérénice M. Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White: Vulnerable Young Girls and Resistance in Contemporary China Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale Chinese art-house cinema. Feminism. Resistance. Sexual assault. Vulnerability |
| title | Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White: Vulnerable Young Girls and Resistance in Contemporary China |
| title_full | Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White: Vulnerable Young Girls and Resistance in Contemporary China |
| title_fullStr | Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White: Vulnerable Young Girls and Resistance in Contemporary China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White: Vulnerable Young Girls and Resistance in Contemporary China |
| title_short | Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White: Vulnerable Young Girls and Resistance in Contemporary China |
| title_sort | vivian qu s angels wear white vulnerable young girls and resistance in contemporary china |
| topic | Chinese art-house cinema. Feminism. Resistance. Sexual assault. Vulnerability |
| url | http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2023/02/004 |
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