ASIAN 1103 Femininities:Asia: Films

This is a list of streaming video services Cornell subscribes to. Details on some of them are in the Films section of this guide.

The "Browse" option at the top of the screen has a drop-down list of subjects, for example Global Studies, which has an Asia section. Or you can use the "Search" option to search using keywords.

"Through a selection of over 1,000 narrative feature films, documentaries and shorts curated by film scholars and critics, the collection offers highly relevant perspectives and insights onto themes relevant across Asia." Try "Women" as a search (at top of screen) -- 217 results.

Includes films, documentaries, animation. Can search for "Women and Asia" or "Feminism and Asia"

"Ethnographic Video Online is a comprehensive online resource for the study of human culture, behavior and society around the world. The collections contain over 1,300 hours of streaming video"

(Kanopy,98 min.). {This film] follows three young Indian women struggling to maintain their identities and follow their dreams amid intense pressure to get married. Documenting the arranged marriage and matchmaking process in verite for over four years, the film examines the women's complex relationship with marriage, family and society.

(Asian Film Online, 1 hr. 47 min) "This highly informative documentary offers critical insight into the dynamic world of South Korean cinema spanning a period of nearly 50 years. The film considers the significant role women have played in various productions ..." I'll Be Seeing Her also shows how South Korean actresses are being displaced by North Korean, Swiss, and Chinese women as a result of a globalized film market."

(NFB film, 4 min.) Use of the internet in China to arrange "mock marriages" and the pitfalls of those marriages. Ling has arranged for herself a "mock marriage" to a gay man on a web site, in order to conceal her lesbian identity from her parents, with whom she lives in an apartment in Guangzhou