Description: Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films : Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility, Paperback by Chow, Rey, ISBN 0231133332, ISBN-13 9780231133333, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US 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 fabulationsscreen artifacts of cultural becoming with irreducible aesthetic, conceptual, and speculative logics of their ownChow presents Chinese cinema first and foremost as an invitation to the pleasures and challenges of critical thinking.
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Book Title: Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films : Attachment
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films : Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2007
Subject: Film / General, Asian / Chinese, Popular Culture, Film / History & Criticism
Item Weight: 15.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Social Science
Author: Rey Chow
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Film and Culture Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
