Red lantern

aspects of Raise the Red Lantern is Zhang Yimou’s usage of mise en scène to capture the confined, hostile environment of Master Chen’s palace. This film opens up with Songlian, the Fourth Mistress, walking, rather than being carried in a red sedan, to the master’s house in an open field, which demonstrates her reluctance of becoming a concubine. This scene is also the last scene where Songlian and the audience get a glimpse of the outside world. The rest of Raise the Red Lantern takes place within

Raise the Red Lantern “All the world’s a stage; all of us are taking the elements of plot, character, and costume and turning into performances of possibilities”(Ward1999: 5) Raise the Red Lantern tells a compelling and sorrowful story of a young woman whose life is destined to be ruined in a male-dominated society. This can be an awakening of some sort to any woman. As Ward states in her text, women learn the rules of our half of the world as well as those of the other half, since we

Zhang Yimou’s Raise the Red Lantern was released in 1991 to immediate critical acclaim, despite being banned in China until mid-1992. Set in China in the 1920s, the film tells the story of Songlian, played by Gong Li, a young woman who has become the fourth concubine of the Chen clan master. In constructing the trailer for his film, Zhang uses six sequences to establish three main genres: melodrama, the spy film, and horror. This essay will discuss how the formal elements within each sequence relate

Adapted from the novel Wives and Concubines by Su Tong, Zhang Yimou’s Raise the Red Lantern presents a glimpse into the oppressive life as a fourth wife. The film follows the arranged marriage of Songlian and her the film presents a criticism of traditional Chinese customs and practices is displayed. The clip to be analysed is the climactic final of the movie as Songlian follows a groups of servants dressed in black as they carry the third wife along the rooftops. Their destination is one particular

Raise the Red Lantern was a Chinese movie that published by 1991, the director of this movie is Yimou Zhang. This movie depicted a tragedy of a woman that living in a traditional Chinese family, the movie is representing the wives and concubines in the old Chinese Society, which woman usually joined in marriage to a man who have a few wives, and woman who cohabits with a man to whom she is not legally married, especially one regarded as socially or sexually subservient and four mistresses in the

Raise The Red Lantern is a film that follows the story of Songlian, a young university student forced to become the concubine of a feudal lord after the death of her father. Songlian is the fourth mistress to the Master and has the most trouble assimilating to the domestic life of servitude that is expected of her. The harsh traditions and expectations present in the manor are made clear through Yimou Zhang’s use of framing. The vastness of the manor is assumed however Zhang choses to show limited

The 1991 Chinese film Raise the Red Lantern, directed by Zhang Yimou, demonstrates power relations within the household in 1920’s upper class Chinese society and uses them to challenge the dominant patriarchal ideologies through a critique of Chinese social culture while also reinforcing the idea that tradition is ultimately the most powerful and thus the relations of power in the household. By culture I am referring to Raymond William’s definition of culture as lived cultures and signifying practices

Set in 1920 republican era China, Raise the red lantern, is a film released in 1991 and directed by Zhang Yimou. Yimou takes the audience behind the walls of a traditional Chinese estate where there is a dominant ideology of patriarchy. It tells a tragic story of how wives which are seen as “mistresses” are forced into a world of schemes for the attention of the powerful Master Chen, the landowner. Through cinematic techniques and reoccurring motifs, the director is able to manifest fatal themes

Using the recurring motifs of red lanterns and caged birds, Raise the Red Lantern conveys themes of authority and custom, leading to further ideas of imprisonment, isolation and power. Authority and custom are integral themes, exemplified through the utilisation of red lanterns and their association with the Master and historical traditions upheld by the Chen family. Red is a significant feature continuously integrated into the setting, a visual representation of the importance of culture within

been through hell in order to please their men. There are a series of double standards and contradictions to how men and women are treated, and this is shown in both Lu Xun and Qiu Jun’s essays as well as in the film set in 1920s China, Raise the Red Lantern. Set the scene: it is China during the 1920s and women do not have a voice. Zoom in to a woman walking into a house that looks like a gray prison-zone. This is her new home. She is the Master’s fourth wife, and her name is Songlian. Raise