Zeng compares Bao’s 1987 film, the first gothic horror made by a woman in China to Cukor’s Gaslight (1944) to unveil its feminist twist.
Li Zeng
Li Zeng is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at Illinois State University. She gained her doctoral degree in screen culture studies from Northwestern University in 2008. Her thesis explores the representation and (re)imagination of the Cultural Revolution in Chinese popular media. She has published book chapters and film reviews and articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Film Quarterly, Jump Cut, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Asian Cinema, Visual Anthropology, Critical Arts, and Adaptation. Her research interests include the representation of history in visual media, feminist theory, the horror genre, film noir, adaptation, and Asian cinema and television.
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