Yang Yin Gender in Chinese Cinema (1998)

This highly personal film essay demonstrates that Chinese cinema has dealt with questions of gender and sexuality more frankly and provocatively than any other national cinema Yang Yin examines male bonding and phallic imagery in the swordplay and kung fu movies of the 60s and 70s homosexuality samesex bonding and physical intimacy the continuing emphasis on womens grievances in melodramas and the phenomenon of Yam KimFai a Hong Kong actress who spent her life portraying men on and off the screen