Context:
The Film:
Reception:
- Raise the Red Lantern was one of the rare Chinese films successfullymarketed in America and its success has been ascribed to its exotic formula.
- Zhao Fei won the NSC award in 1992 for his cinematography on this film.
- Criticed by, amongst others, Dai Qing for supposedly pandering to Orientalist tastes. Contesting this kind of critical reception, Rey Chow proposes that they might be better understood in terms of a self-reflexive or 'autoethnographic' gaze. Ethnography is a sociological methodology, involving the mapping of a regional group's social practices and customs, traditionally undertaken by colonial or 'Western' outsiders. Chow suggests that filmmakers like Zhang Yimou have undertaken the role of 'autoethnographers', allowing the Chinese to gaze at themselves at the moment of their international emergence.
References:
https://film110sp12.pbworks.com/w/page/52547203/Color%20and%20Power%20in%20Raise%20the%20Red%20Lantern
http://www.clockwatching.net/~vroom/zyimou.html
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