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SHS Web Conf.
Volume 220, 2025
2025 2nd International Conference on Language Research and Communication (ICLRC 2025)
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| Article Number | 01027 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Literature, Drama, and Feminist Cultural Narratives | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202522001027 | |
| Published online | 13 August 2025 | |
Narrative Strategies and Image Construction of Women’s Perspective Films under the Gaze Theory: A Case Study of the Film “Her Story”
School of Journalism & Communication, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
* Corresponding author: 11yyyqzzz@gmail.com
In recent years, the Chinese film market has seen an influx of female-themed films with a focus on promoting “female power”. The increasing box office revenue of women-themed films has received widespread attention, but some women’s themed films still use this as a promotional gimmick, which does not meet the expectations and value standards of the audience. This article takes director Shao Yihui’s newest work “Her Story” as an example, using gaze theory to analyze the female perspective it presents, focusing on contemporary urban social issues, emotional topics, kinship and sexual relationships presented in the film, and analyzing how it uses a female perspective to subvert the traditional mode of “male gaze”. This article focuses on the construction of character images and changes in the perspective of the overall narrative core in this type of film, and compares it with other similar films in recent years to conclude that “anti-gaze” female perspective films have a certain help in establishing a female discourse system.
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