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Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Rey Chow
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Description for Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Paperback. Chow 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. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
Chow 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.
Chow 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.
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Series
Film and Culture Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231076838
SKU
V9780231076838
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About Rey Chow
Rey Chow is the author, most recently, of Ethics After Idealism: Theory-Culture-Ethnicity-Reading.
Reviews for Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema
A rich and powerful work that provides both a dazzling synthesis of contemporary cultural theory and at the same time an exemplary critique of Chinese cinema. It is a book to be read and re-read and is thus highly recommended because it is more than a film book. It engages directly with the problems Chinese culture faces in a changing ... Read more