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Sentimental fabulations, contemporary Chinese films : attachment in the age of global visibility / Rey Chow

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Chow, Rey
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2007]
Copyright Date
©2007
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments; Note on Transcription; Introduction; Part I: Remembrance of Things Past; 1 The Seductions of Homecoming: Temptress Moon and the Question of Origins; 2 Nostalgia of the New Wave: Romance, Domesticity, and the Longing for Oneness in Happy Together; 3 The Everyday in The Road Home and In the Mood for Love: From the Legacy of Socialism to the Potency of Yuan; Part II: Migrants' Lore, Women's Options; 4 Autumn Hearts: Filming Feminine "Psychic Interiority" in Song of the Exile; 5 By Way of Mass Commodities: Love in Comrades, Almost a Love Story. and 6 All Chinese Families Are Alike: Biopolitics in Eat a Bowl of Tea and The Wedding BanquetPart III: Picturing the Life to Come . . .; 7 The Political Economy of Vision in Happy Times and Not One Less; or, A Different Type of Migration; 8 "Human" in the Age of Disposable People: The Ambiguous Import of Kinship and Education in Blind Shaft; 9 The Enigma of Incest and the Staging of Kinship Family Remains in The River; Postscript (Inspired by Brokeback Mountain): "The Juice"; or, "The Great Chinese Theme; Notes; Index.
Summary
What is the sentimental? How can we understand it by way of the visual and narrative modes of signification specific to cinema and through the manners of social interaction and collective imagining specific to a particular culture in transition? What can the sentimental tell us about the precarious foundations of human coexistence in this age of globalization? Rey Chow explores these questions through nine contemporary Chinese directors (Chen Kaige, Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Yimou, Ann Hui, Peter Chan, Wayne Wang, Ang Lee, Li Yang, and Tsai Ming-liang) whose accomplishments hav.
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9780231508193 (electronic bk.)
0231508190 (electronic bk.)
0231133324 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0231133332 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780231133326 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780231133333 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-250) and index.
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