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- Title
Boxed within the frame: Tibetan masculinities in transformation in Pema Tseden's Jinpa.
- Authors
Pecic, Zoran Lee
- Abstract
The Tibetan auteur Pema Tseden is renowned for using the road movie as a means of interrogating the relationship between his characters and society in the Tibetan areas of the PRC. As his protagonists travel, the natural settings become an integral part of the journey through the Tibetan lands. The amalgamation of movement and landscapes enables the emergence of a Tibetan subject whose complex and heterogenous self-representation defies the dualism of tradition and modernity. In this article, I argue that Pema Tseden's recent feature Jinpa (2018) marks an aesthetic and thematic departure from his earlier work. Rather than looming large over the characters, the landscapes serve as an underlying framework for a heightened emphasis on the interaction between the characters. At the heart of the film is the notion of Tibetan masculinity in crisis. Whilst portraying the ways that history, culture and tradition haunt the men in the film, Pema Tseden also turns his attention to the female characters. Proposing a new take on Tibetan masculinities who assume the previously women-only roles of carriers of culture, he offers a unique perspective on and in New Tibetan Cinema.
- Subjects
JINPA (Film); PEMA Tseden, 1969-; TRAVEL in motion pictures; MASCULINITY in motion pictures; TIBET (China) in motion pictures
- Publication
New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 2022, Vol 20, Issue 1, p91
- ISSN
1474-2756
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism
- DOI
10.1386/ncin_00032_1