Commentary

Anthropology’s Prophecy for #MeToo: From Hollywood to Hong Kong

“…This was also the case on‐screen, particularly in the last decades with the popularity of martial arts, police, and gangster films. Cultural studies scholar Laikwan Pang claims that since the comedy and action movies of the 1970s, “no female performers could enter the first tier of the star division” (2005, 8), although in those genres or others, Sylvia Chang, Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, or Anita Mui could arguably rank as “first tier” (see, e.g., Bettinson 2015). Yet in a star‐driven system, with men in most other key positions behind the camera, that imbalance results in male‐dominated work environments as well as fewer female‐centered stories on‐screen.…”