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The cinema of Ang Lee : the other side of the screen /

Through suggestive readings of gender and identity, this book explores the international appeal of an acclaimed contemporary director. The author has revised the book's introduction to reflect Ang Lee's new films and their global reception and adds to the text a consideration of new develo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dilley, Whitney Crothers
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Wallflower Press, [2015]
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:Directors' cuts.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Ang Lee: a history
  • Ang Lee as director: his position in Asian and world cinema
  • Confucian values and cultural displacement in Pushing hands
  • Transgressing boundaries of gender and culture in The wedding banquet
  • Globalization and cultural identity in Eat drink man woman
  • Opposition and resolution in sense and sensibility
  • Fragmentary narratives/fragmented identities in The ice storm
  • Race, gender, class, and social identity in Ride with the devil
  • Wuxia narrative and transnational Chinese identity in Crouching tiger, hidden dragon
  • The ultimate outsider: Hulk
  • Transcending gender in Brokeback Mountain
  • Eroticism and performance in Lust/Caution
  • Memory, narrative, and transformation in Taking Woodstock
  • Storytelling and truth in Life of Pi: a spiritual journey
  • Conclusion: the dream of cinema.