On Feminist Consciousness Of Stanley Kwan's Movies

As a male director of Hong Kong, Stanley Kwan is only adhere to the theme of women, he shaped the image of women with the traditional culture and many different personality characteristics in his morbidezza, delicate style of classical aesthetics in film. This is why he has the name of "feminist director", and his movie is called "feminist movie". The female survival situations and tragic fates are represented and emphasized in Kwan's film, and he expressed his deep solicitude and commiserative feelings and showed his unique feminist consciousness. However, this special feminist consciousness is an simulation and imagination of the real feminist consciousness during the period that Kwan purchased his homosexual identification. Therefore, his feminist consciousness has some limitations, and it is an halfway feminist consciousness. Such as lack the deep exploration in pursuit of independence in the spirit of modern women, in particular the sense of women's self-salvation.This dissertation analyzes the feminist consciousness expression of feminist movie through the stipulation of feminist movie and female consciousness. From the Kwan's movie creation history, the classical aesthetic characteristics and concerning features is discussed in the article. At last, from the discussion of different characteristics and limitations of Chinese and western feminist movies, the author analysis the feminist consciousness and limitations of Kwan's movie from Utopian feminist consciousness, build the objective rethinking attitude towards Kwan's movie under the direction of systematic feminist movie theories, understand the real intention and objective expression of his feminist movie creation, and explore the inner connotation of feminist consciousness in Kwan's movie.In this paper, the first chapter "female movies and feminist consciousness", affirmed the expression of feminist consciousness in the female movies from feminist narrative view, female mirror discourse and gender critic awareness, through defining the meaning and exploring the relationship between the feminist movie and the feminist consciousness.Chapterâ…¡, "feminist consciousness in Stanley Kwan's female movies ", analyzed the features of feminist consciousness in Stanley Kwan's female movies from female theme, female view, homosexual identification and female sentiment, beginning with the review of history of Stanley Kwan's film.Chapterâ…¡"from the idealized feminist consciousness to see the movie of Stanley Kwan", analyzed the difficult position and limitations of Stanley Kwan's female movies through the discussion of different features and limitations of feminist consciousness in the Chinese and Western female movie.The last part summarizes the characteristics of feminist consciousness in Stanley Kwan's movies, then analyzes and prospects the idealized feminist consciousness.