Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese CinemaChow situates contemporary Chinese film within the broad context of Chinese history and culture, giving readers a glimpse of the unique shared identity that characterizes the current crop of outstanding filmmakers, such as Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou. |
Contents
Visuality Modernity and Primitive Passions | 1 |
Some Contemporary Chinese Films | 53 |
Digging an Old Well The Labor of Social Fantasy | 55 |
Silent Is the Ancient Plain Music Filmmaking and the Concept of Social Change in the New Chinese Cinema | 79 |
Male Narcissism and National Culture Subjectivity in Chen Kaiges King of the Children | 108 |
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Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary ... Rey Chow No preview available - 1995 |
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