Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films : Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility

作者：ReyChow

出版社：ColumbiaUniversityPress

副标题：AttachmentintheAgeofGlobalVisibility

出版年：2007-3-27

页数：288

定价：USD28.00

装帧：Paperback

ISBN：9780231133333

内容简介
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What is the sentimental? How can we understand it by way of the visual and narrative modes of signification specific to cinema and through the manners of social interaction and collective imagining specific to a particular culture in transition? What can the sentimental tell us about the precarious foundations of human coexistence in this age of globalization? Rey Chow explores these questions through nine contemporary Chinese directors (Chen Kaige, Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Yimou, Ann Hui, Peter Chan, Wayne Wang, Ang Lee, Li Yang, and Tsai Ming-liang) whose accomplishments have become historic events in world cinema. Approaching their works from multiple perspectives, including the question of origins, nostalgia, the everyday, feminine "psychic interiority," commodification, biopolitics, migration, education, homosexuality, kinship, and incest, and concluding with an account of the Chinese films' epistemic affinity with the Hollywood blockbuster Brokeback Mountain, Chow proposes that the sentimental is a discursive constellation traversing affect, time, identity, and social mores, a constellation whose contours tends to morph under different historical circumstances and in different genres and media. In contemporary Chinese films, she argues, the sentimental consistently takes the form not of revolution but of compromise, not of radical departure but of moderation, endurance, and accommodation. By naming these films sentimental fabulations–screen artifacts of cultural becoming with irreducible aesthetic, conceptual, and speculative logics of their own–Chow presents Chinese cinema first and foremost as an invitation to the pleasures and challenges of critical thinking.

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Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Note on Transcription

Introduction

Part I: Remembrance of Things Past

1. The Seductions of Homecoming: Temptress Moon and the Question of Origins

2. Nostalgia of the New Wave: Romance, Domesticity, and the Longing for Oneness in Happy

Together

3. The Everyday in The Road Home and In the Mood for Love: From the Legacy of Socialism to the

Potency of Yuan

Part II: Migrants' Lore, Women's Options

4. Autumn Hearts: Filming Feminine Psychic Interiority in Song of the Exile

5. By Way of Mass Commodities: Love in Comrades, Almost a Love Story

6. All Chinese Families Are Alike: Biopolitics in Eat a Bowl of Tea and The Wedding Banquet

Part III: Picturing the Life to Come . . .

7. The Political Economy of Vision in Happy Times and Not One Less; or, A Different Type of

Migration

8. "Human" in the Age of Disposable People: The Ambiguous Import of Kinship and Education in

Blind Shaft

9. The Enigma of Incest and the Staging of Kinship Family Remains in The River

Postscript (Inspired by Brokeback Mountain): "The Juice"; or, "The Great Chinese Theme"

Notes

Index

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Motion pictures — China.

Motion pictures — Social aspects — China.

评论 ······

花了我这学期好几个月，因为很多电影尤其张艺谋的没有看过，强迫症又要过一遍《喜宴》《吃一碗茶》《断背山》原著，终于一部部补下来。温情主义当然有待商榷，既然先决是去地域国别研究局限性，又如何界定华语电影中所谓的家庭domesticity/日常生活呢？但是对蕾妈来说永远是概念即问题，读她的文笔本身就很享受了。

many insights, but not consistent as a monograph. Sentimentalism is not the grand narrative

很有用周蕾老师！

前面几篇实在有点无聊，但是后面从甜蜜蜜喜宴一系列开始渐入佳境了。。

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