Essays on Raise The Red Lantern

Intellectual Elaboration

Among the many examples of gender or racial stereotyping that can be found from film or media, I chose the following; Gender Stereotypes within Children, Labels Against Women, and Raise the Red Latern. The Gender Stereotypes within Children has emphasis on how children respond from the given questions about the difference between a boy and a girl. The Labels Against Women talks about a commercial advertisement that represents women empowerment. The movie entitled Raise the Red Lantern demonstrates polygamy happened in China during the era of warlords, before the civil war of the ...

Women of today are stronger. Their status is changing from the past to the present. Years ago, women are considered responsible only as wives. Simply listened to their husbands, became fulltime wives; they never enjoyed life and focused on how to serve their husbands, and no freedom to express themselves as women. Men believed that women have no right to pursue their career other than being homemakers and mothers; looked down by men. At present, women are more active in their role in the society, conscious about their status and they progress in view of their rights as well. ...

Introduction

Raise the red lantern (1991) is a Chinese film whose main theme is sexual enslavement. The protagonist in the film lives life in a closed system where the long established customs that rule demand no escape. The protagonist in the film is a nineteen year old girl who drops out of college in the event of her father’s death. The girl is condemned into a life of a concubine of a wealthy man, alongside four others, because her mother denied her support after the demise of her father. The movie in itself is an anthropological lesson because it enlightens on the nature of humans ...

Perceived ‘Oriental’ qualities of ‘Chineseness,’ ‘femininity,’ and ‘mystery’” are what “separate Chinese and Western audience preferences for Zhang Yimou’s films and Gong Li’s images” Over the past years, the Chinese Cinema has proved to receive a lot of attention. Popular film directors like Zhang Yimou have scooped several awards at prestigious world film festivals. Many of these films seem to have a major focus on the issues of nationhood and the national identity. Sheldon Lu’s argument that “perceived ‘oriental’ qualities of ‘Chineseness,’ ‘feminity,’ and ‘mystery’ are truly the separating elements of the Chinese audience preferences from the ...