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A Heroic female coach in Chinese movie: Peter Chan’s Leap (2020)

Siyao Lin

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In the historically patriarchal domain of sport (Mennesson, 2005), female athletes have long been locked into certain stereotypes. However, the arts (Meskimmon, 2003), literature (Bauer, 2011) or cinema (Lieberman, 2014) are fields that allow us to rethink these fixed representations by creating new female images. The Chinese biopic Leap (2020), directed by the Hong Kong director Peter Chan, is a suggestive example. It traces the history of the Chinese women's volleyball team over almost half a century, including the heroic journey of Lang Ping, a talented player turned coach. This heroine is not only a liberated woman but is also presented by the filmmaker as a feminist role model for the young volleyball players she coaches. However, can she really be said to challenge - and if so, to what extent - the patriarchal and collectivist traditions that are omnipresent in China's sports scene? By combining a film analysis, a cultural study of sport and a gender study, this paper will aim to present the figure of the sports coach in Chinese cinema which, despite a certain feminist evolution, is still caught by the three cinematographic censorships that Christian Metz talks about: the political, economic and ideological censorships (Metz, 1968). We will first situate the biopic in the current Chinese context in order to understand the image of women and, more specifically the sportswoman, in the arts, literature, cinema and the media; then, a narrative analysis will allow us to identify a heroization of the real-life Lang Ping that testifies to a feminist trend in Chinese cinema; finally, a figurative analysis that parallels reality and fiction will reveal the commercial pursuits and political arrangements that compromise the progressive qualities of this female character.
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hal-04518028 , version 1 (23-03-2024)

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Siyao Lin. A Heroic female coach in Chinese movie: Peter Chan’s Leap (2020). The 39th Annual Conference of the Sport Literature Association, Sport Literature Association, Jun 2022, En ligne, United States. ⟨hal-04518028⟩
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