Blind Date

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dc.contributor.advisorEvans, Barbara
dc.creatorKennedy, Matthew Casey
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-25T13:59:17Z
dc.date.available2016-11-25T13:59:17Z
dc.date.copyright2016-06-08
dc.date.issued2016-11-25
dc.date.updated2016-11-25T13:59:17Z
dc.degree.disciplineFilm and Video
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMFA - Master of Fine Arts
dc.description.abstractBlind Date is a documentary film about a young woman from rural China named Chun Cao Zhao who is pressured into marriage through a tradition known as blind dating. The film begins in Guangzhou, a sprawling metropolis in Southern China, where she has been living for the past ten years, and is just days away from returning home for her wedding. As she slowly says goodbye to city life, the life she wants to keep, she reveals to the camera her feelings toward her fianc, her thoughts on the impending wedding and her own struggles to find a boyfriend. As the film follows her back home we intimately witness the sacrifices she is forced to make in order to appease her parents and the greater instrument of Chinese culture. The film examines and contrasts contemporary China with traditional China and displays the varying roles of each gender in both rural and urban settings. The film concludes with her arranged marriage and a short follow-up with her new husband six months after the wedding.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/32679
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectAsian studies
dc.subject.keywordsFilm
dc.subject.keywordsFilm production
dc.subject.keywordsChina
dc.subject.keywordsAsia
dc.subject.keywordsGuangzhou
dc.subject.keywordsHenan
dc.subject.keywordsDocumentary
dc.subject.keywordsArranged marriage
dc.subject.keywordsTradition
dc.subject.keywordsBlind date
dc.titleBlind Date
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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