Sinophone Queerness and Female Auteurship in Zero Chou’s Drifting Flowers

• Main Author: Zoran Lee Pecic
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: The International Academic Forum 2016-06-01
• Series: IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film
• Subjects: Zero Chou; tongzhi trilogy; tomboyism; Drifting Flowers; intertextuality
• Online Access: https://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-media-communication-and-film/volume-3-issue-1/article-3/

This article investigates the third instalment of the Taiwanese director Zero Chou’s tongzhi trilogy. It suggests that her 2009 film Drifting Flowers defies the “global gay” narratives of identity formation whilst remaining rooted in Taiwan’s cultural and geographical space. The article argues that the inter- and intratextual elements in Chou’s cinema position her as a Taiwanese queer auteur whose inclusive queerness points to new directions in not only New Queer Sinophone Cinema but also queer cinema globally.