Gina Marchetti explores how contemporary female directors in Chinese-language cinema  visualize the evolving role of women across transnational Chinese societies while critiquing “the male glance.” A renowned scholar and author, Marchetti shares how these directors build stories around women whose lives revolve around catching a glimpse of men wielding oversized influence on their survival.
The accompanying screening of Yang Mingming’s Girls Always Happy (2018) provides a telling example of the interplay between the male glance and the female glimpse in contemporary cinema from mainland China.
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The Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture Series affords an opportunity for prominent filmmakers to discuss their work and for notable scholars to present perspectives on the history of film as an art form. Dr. Shailendra Vaidya of Chester County, Pennsylvania, and family and friends, have generously endowed this series in honor of Rajiv Vaidya, a film devotee and writer who held a degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University.
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