Socialist feminist film criticism has become a new trend in China’s film criticism regarding women’s cinema in recent years. By countering the hegemony of Western feminist theories and reevaluating China’s socialist women’s emancipation movement, it confirms a local“socialist feminism”which differs from Western concepts. Based on that, critics are starting to revisit socialist feminist cultural practices and focus on movies by women directors of the socialist era, trying to redefine them as“socialist feminist films.”Similar to socialist feminist criticism,“feminism indigenization”originated from literature criticism and soon made its way into the field of film criticism. By sharing the same goal of constructing a localized concept of feminism, “socialist feminist”film criticism and“feminism indigenization”criticism are showing a tendency to merge with each other, leading in a new direction for China’s feminist film criticism.
