“为祖国做一个真正的男人”:中国朝鲜战争电影中的男子气概与国家安全

IF 0.3 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Xiang Gao
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社会上对中国年轻男性“缺乏男子气概”的讨论和批评越来越多。作为回应,中国教育部在2021年建议学校“培养学生的男子气概”。为了消除中国电视、电影和广告中的“变态审美”和“男性女性化”现象,中国国家广播电视总局还对演员的选角、表演风格、服装和化妆等方面制定了严格的规定。与此同时,各种战争电影和电视节目所呈现的人物和环境,突出了“理想”的男性原型,以及中国男性角色的品质——爱国主义、英雄主义、无私、力量、忠诚和智慧。本文对两部中国朝鲜战争电影《上甘岭》和《长金湖》中的男性形象进行了考察和比较。从国家、领导和个人三个层面分析男性战争人物形象的变化。本研究认为,“男子气概危机”导致了中国男子气概的证券化,这是中国政府持续努力控制和引导广泛的社会和文化变革的过程和结果,这些变革在过去几十年里影响了中国社会的流行文化、性、性别和妇女的权利和角色。
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‘Be a real man for our motherland’: Masculinity and national security in Chinese Korean War films
There has been increasing societal discussion and criticism on the ‘lack of masculinity’ among Chinese young men. In response, the Chinese Ministry of Education in 2021 advised schools to ‘foster the students’ masculinity’. The Chinese National Radio and Television Administration also set strict rules for casting and choosing performing styles, custom and makeup in order to eliminate the ‘abnormal aesthetic’ and the ‘male feminization’ in Chinese television, film and advertisement. At the same time, various war films and television shows present characters and circumstances that highlight an ‘ideal’ masculine archetypes as well as the quality of a Chinese male character – patriotism, heroism, selflessness, strength, loyalty and intelligence. This article examines and compares the male images in two Chinese Korean War films, Shangganling and Changjinhu. It analyses the changing portrayal of male war characters based on three levels of analysis, namely nationhood, leadership and individuals. This study argues that the ‘masculinity crisis’ has led to the securitization of Chinese masculinity, a process and outcome driven by the Chinese government’s continued efforts to control and channel the broad social and cultural changes which have impacted popular culture, sexuality, gender and women’s rights and roles across Chinese society over the past several decades.
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Film Fashion & Consumption
Film Fashion & Consumption HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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