Filmic masculinities evince the dreams and anxieties of entire generations. Against the backdrop of a confident and economically powerful China, this blog discusses the diverse masculinities portrayed in three recent Chinese box office hits, and shows the inseparability of masculinity, consumption, nationalism, and cultural identity in China’s post-socialist modernity.
Why are people murdered because of their gender expression? And beaten up, derided, and discriminated against? What is it about non-normative gender expression that is so threatening?
This is the first in a series of blog posts on the Academic Centre for the Memory of Nuestra América (CAMeNA) at the Autonomous University of Mexico City. The series of posts presents the work of the CAMeNA and its publicly accessible archival collections. This first post is a general presentation of the CAMeNA and its history.
Report on Conference held at Lancaster University on 12-13 July 2017.