| Summary: | 碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 國際事務研究所碩士班 === 99 === The following six films are examined: The Joy Luck Club (1993), The Wedding Banquet (1993), Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Chinese Box (1997), Lust Caution (2007) and Shanghai (2010). Through textual analysis these films will formulate a foundation for supplementing cross-cultural production and consumption in a globalization perspective; not only comparing and contrasting East and West cinematic production known as Transnationalism, but also in examining how Asian and Western industries portray Asian American women as individuals. This suggests that factors including; ethnicity, inter-racial relationships, feminism, identity and culture do play a large part in how these actresses are seen by today because of background roots and in comparison towards what they portray. The information provided in this thesis researches constructivists theorists idea and collaborates in strengthening cross-cultural studies in cinema. Through consolidating different aspects of a qualitative study the argument analyses enhances globalization and transnationalised cinematic worlds. Formulating this article via textual reading there is a stress on terms like globalization and transnationalism focusing on comparative Asian cinema studies of Chinese women, broadcast in both the East and West re-enhancing both social and cultural norms.
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