Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema - Hardcover
by Rey Chow
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Availability:In StockContributor:Rey ChowSeries:Film and CultureTheme:Cultural Region/Chinese, Sex & Gender/FeminineAudience:Young AdultPublish date:3/16/1995Pages:252
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231076821ISBN-10:0231076827UPC:9780231076821Book Category:Performing Arts, History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Film, AsiaBook Topic:ChinaSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.495Product ID:SC2EBCZ3N4
Situating modern Chinese film within the broader context of Chinese history and culture, this study argues that the cinema in China belongs to a firm tradition of visual arts that has for many years been suppressed. It analyzes the emotional response to social, political and economic deprivations.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231076821ISBN-10:0231076827UPC:9780231076821Book Category:Performing Arts, History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Film, AsiaBook Topic:ChinaSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.495Product ID:SC2EBCZ3N4
Chow, Rey: - Rey Chow is Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University and the author of numerous influential books, including several published by Columbia University Press: Primitive Passions; The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism; and Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films. A collection of her writings, The Rey Chow Reader, was edited by Paul Bowman. Her work has appeared in more than ten languages.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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