Sharon Bertasi

Women in contemporary Chinese cinema Sharon Bertasi

The world of cinema is a universe with a thousand faces, whose creative possibilities are constantly evolving. Its binary travels in parallel with historical changes and the implications they bring to the social level. In these pages, I have tried to analyze the main trends that have characterized contemporary Chinese cinema directed by women, focusing on narrative strategies, directing techniques adopted and ways of expressing the female perspective. I recognized in these so-called sixth-generation female directors a common desire to create the necessary basis for the awakening of female consciousness in Chinese women and the emergence of a strong gender identity through the visual manifestation of real female experience. The medium through which these women filmmakers seek to convey their message is "women's film," which explores the image of women as the main body of the narrative and the awakening of a female self-awareness along with the realization of a subjective identity as the ultimate goal for women's emotional liberation.