| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 289 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part 1. Modernity and postcolonial ethnicity ; The age of the world target : atomic bombs, alterity, area studies -- The postcolonial difference : lessons in cultural legitimation -- From "Writing Diaspora" : introduction : leading questions -- Brushes with the-other-as-face : stereotyping and cross-ethnic representation -- The politics of admittance : female sexual agency, miscegenation, and the formation of community in Frantz Fanon -- When whiteness feminizes : some consequences of a supplementary logic -- Part 2. Filmic visuality and transcultural politics ; Film and cultural identity -- Seeing modern China : toward a theory of ethnic spectatorship -- The dream of a Butterfly -- Film as ethnography ; or, translation between cultures in the postcolonial world -- A filmic staging of postwar geotemporal politics : on Akira Kurosawa's "No Regrets for Our Youth", sixty years later -- From "Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films : Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility" -- The political economy of vision in "Happy Times" and "Not One Less" ; or, a different type of migration |
| Summary |
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 thought - provides readers with an ideal introduction to some of her most forceful theoretical explorations. Organized into two sections, each of which begins with a brief statement designed to establish linkages among various discursive fields through Chow's writings, the anthology also contains an extensive Editor's Introduction, which situates Chow's work in the context of contemporary critical debates. For all those pursuing transnational cultural theory and cultural studies, this book is an essential resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes chapter notes with bibliographical references (pages 215-267), and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Culture.
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Politics and culture.
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Social change.
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Poststructuralism.
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Motion pictures -- China.
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Motion pictures and transnationalism.
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Motion pictures and globalization.
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Culture in motion pictures.
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post-structuralism.
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Culture.
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Culture in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures.
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Motion pictures and globalization.
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Motion pictures and transnationalism.
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Politics and culture.
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Poststructuralism.
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Social change.
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China.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bowman, Paul, 1971- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780231520782 |
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0231520786 |
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