Women, Shakespeare and Asian Cinemas

本论文探讨了亚洲电影院对莎士比亚女性形象的再现、再想象和再利用。当英国文艺复兴时期的女性原型在亚洲(被理解为中国/香港、印度、日本、韩国、台湾和泰国)被采纳并以不同方式改编时，这意味着什么？这篇论文涵盖了国内/跨国的电影史和工业背景，将是第一次研究莎士比亚的女性在世界这一地区的意义。包括对女性导演/从业者的分析，以及对非二元身份的考虑，论文认为适应总是局部的，并与特定的家庭、种族、宗教和社会经济环境和地理有关。

This thesis investigates the ways in which Asian cinemas represent, reimagine and repurpose Shakespeare's women. What does it mean when archetypes of English Renaissance womanhood are taken up and variously adapted across Asia (understood as China/Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Thailand)? Ranging across national/transnational histories of cinema and industrial contexts, the thesis will be the first study of how Shakespeare's women signify in this part of the world. Including analysis of women directors/practitioners, and consideration of non-binary identities, the thesis argues that adaptation is always local and tied to particular familial, racial, religious and socio-economic circumstances and geographies.