Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chine... by Chow, Rey Paperback / softback

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ISBN
0231133332
EAN
9780231133333
Release Title
Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachmen...
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231133332
ISBN-13
9780231133333
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57225127

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
288 Pages
Publication Name
Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films : Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility
Language
English
Subject
Film / General, Asian / Chinese, Popular Culture, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Author
Rey Chow
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Social Science
Series
Film and Culture Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
15.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2006-039237
Reviews
Chow's scholarship is consistently superior in its provocative arguments for humanistic concerns and its impressive coverage of secondary sources., "[Chow] captivates us with her challenging and refreshing arguments. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal, "Through Chow's perspective, the sentimental thus becomes a productive and promising concept for understanding national cinema." -- Kristi McKim, Film Quarterly, Through Chow's perspective, the sentimental thus becomes a productive and promising concept for understanding national cinema., "[Chow] captivates us with her challenging and refreshing arguments. Highly recommended." -- "Library Journal", " Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films is a thought-inspiring work of scholarship." -- Jie Li, Journal of Film and Video, "A thoughtful discussion of nine contemporary Chinese directors and their cinematic accomplishments." -- James A. Cox, The Midwest Book Review, " Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Filmsis a thought-inspiring work of scholarship." -- Jie Li, Journal of Film and Video, "Chow's scholarship is consistently superior in its provocative arguments for humanistic concerns and its impressive coverage of secondary sources. " -- Howard Y. F. Choy, Wittenberg University, The China Journal
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
791.430951
Table Of Content
Preface and Acknowledgments Note on Transcriptions 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,a nd 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 6 All Chinese Families are Alike: Biopolitics in Eat a Bowl of Tea and The Wedding Banquet Part III: Picturing the Life to Come... 7
Synopsis
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 have become historic events in world cinema. Approaching their works from multiple perspectives, including the question of origins, nostalgia, the everyday, feminine "psychic interiority," commodification, biopolitics, migration, education, homosexuality, kinship, and incest, and concluding with an account of the Chinese films' epistemic affinity with the Hollywood blockbuster Brokeback Mountain , Chow proposes that the sentimental is a discursive constellation traversing affect, time, identity, and social mores, a constellation whose contours tends to morph under different historical circumstances and in different genres and media. In contemporary Chinese films, she argues, the sentimental consistently takes the form not of revolution but of compromise, not of radical departure but of moderation, endurance, and accommodation. By naming these films sentimental fabulations --screen artifacts of cultural becoming with irreducible aesthetic, conceptual, and speculative logics of their own--Chow presents Chinese cinema first and foremost as an invitation to the pleasures and challenges of critical thinking.
LC Classification Number
PN1993.5.C4C467 2007

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