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1 online resource (xiv, 216) |
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Academia Sinica on East Asia |
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Academia Sinica on East Asia.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Adaptation as translation, betrayal, or consumption; 2 Eros, subjectivity, and collective memory through performance; 3 Identity politics and global cultural economy; Notes; Part I: Adaptation as translation, betrayal, or consumption; 1. Montage of attractions: juxtaposing Lust/Caution; Montage initiated: Deutscher Schäferhund; Deutscher Schäferhund redux; Dialectical montage: juxtaposition, collision |
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Montage of attractions: is it real, the sex?1 Attraction as action construction, not the static reflection of an event; 2 Real attraction relies on the spectator's reaction, not merely the performer's skill; 3 The spectator's reaction should derive from an emotional shock; Conclusion: rewriting and overwriting Eileen Chang; Notes; 2. Two versions of Sejie: fiction and film -- views from a common reader; Eileen Chang's fiction; Ang Lee's film; Notes |
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3. Sado-masochism, steamy sex, and Shanghai glitter: what's love got to do with it? A 'philologist' looks at Lust/Caution and the literary texts that inspired itNotes; 4. Cannibal, class, betrayal: Eileen Chang and Ang Lee; Animal magnetism; Comparison with Ri Koran; Real sex; Notes; Part II: Eros, subjectivity, and collective memory; 5. Eros impossible and Eros of the impossible in Lust/Caution: the Shanghai lady/baby in the late 1930s and early 1940s; "The Lust/Caution phenomenon": politics, mass media, and the box office in post-colonial Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China |
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The integrity of the film structure and the disintegrity of the story strategyFrom Eros to Eros impossible: story, script, and screen; From Eros impossible to Eros of the impossible: affections, attachments, adventure, abandon and awareness of the Shanghai baby/lady; Conclusion; Notes; 6. Self as performance, lust as betrayal in the theatre of war; Notes; 7. The "real" Wang Jiazhi: taboo, transgression, and truth in Lust/Caution; Bataille: taboo and transgression -- heightening the allure of transgression; Mahjong, high society, and Western cultural influences |
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Duplicity in other Ang Lee works, and the "real" Wang JiazhiPart III: Identity politics and global cultural economy; 8. Becoming noir; Sartor resartus: leitmotive film or film noir?; Becoming noir; The state of film noir studies, or The Big Sleep; The Nietzschean turn; The state of noir, or Deleuze with Lacan; The nation and the whores; Notes; 9. Woman as metaphor: how Lust/Caution re/deconstructs history; "Saving history": whose history?; Performativity and patriotism; A woman who refuses to cooperate; The image of a collaborator; Woman: metaphor for the "age of innocence"; Notes |
| Summary |
In 2007, Ang Lee made an espionage thriller based on the short story ""Lust, Caution"" by Eileen Chang, China's most famous female author of the twentieth century. The release of the film became a trigger for heated debates on issues of national identity and political loyalty, and brought unexpectedly harsh criticism from China, where Ang Lee was labelled a traitor in scathing internet critiques, whilst the film's leading actress Tang Wei was banned from appearing on screen for two years. This book analyses Ang Lee's art of film adaptation through the lens of modern literary and film |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Se, jie (Motion picture) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007036170
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Se jie (Motion picture) fast |
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Se, jie gnd |
| Subject |
Chinese literature -- Film adaptations
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Chinese literature
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Adaption Literatur
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| Genre/Form |
Film adaptations
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Dilley, Whitney Crothers
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| ISBN |
9781317911029 |
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1317911024 |
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130632033X |
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9781306320337 |
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9781315849829 |
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1315849828 |
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