AUUUUDITORIUM MAY | Conversation on Female Knights-Errant in Early Shanghai Film

Under the aegis of Rockbund Art Museum’s multi-year research initiative, Complex Geographies, the May screening series of AUUUUDITORIUM, The R.A.S. auditorium historically played a key role in cultural representation through its film screenings.
The "Female Knights-Errant" session will focus on two films from 1929 - Red Heroine and Woman Warrior White Rose. These films highlight the portrayal of female empowerment on the silver screen during the 1920s, offering a seemingly striking contrast to the male-dominated landscape of early Chinese cinema, particularly within the martial arts genre. Integrating the historical and cinematic contexts of that era, the lecture will use these films as a lens to examine concepts of "chivalry" and "progress" during the formative years of Chinese cinema. The session aims to juxtapose these themes with the era's prevailing cinematic concept of "shadow-play," reflecting on how these narratives were represented and perceived in the films of that time.
Speakers：
Wang Peilei, lecturer at the School of Art and Media, Xianda College. He holds a PhD in Drama and Film Studies from the Shanghai Theatre Academy. Wang serves as a film selector for the Shanghai International Film Festival and is also a film critic, screenwriter, and author of essays and novels. His research focuses include film acting and the history of Hong Kong cinema. He has received awards related to literature from the China Times and cross-strait youth online literature.
依托上海外滩美术馆发起的“复杂地理”长期研究计划，“讲---堂”五月的系列活动“奇女列传：早期上海银幕上的本土现代主义”呈现了二十世纪初上海早期电影文化错综复杂的景观。
“女侠”专场将围绕《红侠》（1929）与《女侠白玫瑰》（1929）两部作品展开。影片所展现出来置身1920年代的银幕女性力量，似乎在男性占据主导权的早期中国电影--尤其是武侠片--产业中另辟蹊径。电影讲座结合当时中国历史尤其影史背景，以这两部影片文本为切入口，试图钩沉中国电影草创阶段的“侠义观”与“进步”的时代症候，同时将其与集中体现在当时电影中的“影戏观念”并置讨论。
对谈人：
独孤岛主，真名王培雷，上外贤达学院艺术与传媒学院讲师，上海戏剧学院戏剧与影视学博士，上海国际电影节选片人，影评人，编剧、散文及小说作者。研究方向为电影表演、香港电影史等。曾获中时文学与两岸青年网络文学相关奖项。