ISBN:
9780231149945
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9780231149952
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (xxiii, 289 p)
,
ill
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Paralleltitel:
Print version The Rey Chow Reader
DDC:
306.2
Schlagwort(e):
Motion pictures
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Motion pictures and transnationalism
;
Motion pictures and globalization
;
Culture in motion pictures
;
Social change
;
Poststructuralism
;
Culture
;
Politics and culture
Kurzfassung:
Rey Chow is arguably one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. Characteristically confronting both entrenched and emergent issues in the interlocking fields of literature, film and visual studies, sexuality and gender, postcolonialism, ethnicity, and cross-cultural politics, her works produce surprising connections among divergent topics at the same time as they compel us to think through the ethical and political ramifications of our academic, epistemic, and cultural practices. This anthology - the first to collect key moments in Chow's engaging
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
CONTENTS; Editor's Introduction ix; Acknowledgments xxv; PART 1. Modernity and Postcolonial Ethnicity; 1. The Age of the World Target: Atomic Bombs, Alterity, Area Studies 2; 2. The Postcolonial Difference: Lessons in Cultural Legitimation 20; 3. From Writing Diaspora: Introduction: Leading Questions 30; 4. Brushes with the-Other-as-Face Stereotyping and Cross-Ethnic Representation 48; 5. The Politics of Admittance Female Sexual Agency, Miscegenation, and the Formationof Community in Frantz Fanon 56; 6. When Whiteness Feminizes . . . Some Consequences of a Supplementary Logic 76
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
PART2. Filmic Visuality and Transcultural Politics 827. Film and Cultural Identity 84; 8. Seeing Modern China: Toward a Theory of Ethnic Spectatorship 92; 9. The Dream of a Butterfly 124; 10. Film as Ethnography; or, Translation Between Culturesin the Postcolonial World 148; 11. A Filmic Staging of Postwar Geotemporal Politics: On Akira Kurosawa's No Regrets for Our Youth, Sixty Years Later 172; 12. From Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility 180; 13. The Political Economy of Vision in Happy Times and Not One Less
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
or, a Different Type of Migration 196Notes 215; Index 269
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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