Melancholy Drift Marking Time in Chinese Cinema

Ma offers an innovative study of three provocative Chinese directors: Wong Kar-wai, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang. Focusing on the highly stylized and nonlinear configurations of time in each director's films, she argues that these directors have brought new global respect for Chinese ci...

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Main Author Ma, Jean
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Hong Kong Hong Kong University Press, HKU 2010
Hong Kong University Press
Edition1
Subjects
2001-2009
Anthropology
Cai, Mingliang, 1957- > Criticism and interpretation
Cultural
Economic policy
Fiscal policy
Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947- > Criticism and interpretation
Monetary policy
Motion pictures > China > History
SOCIAL SCIENCE
United States
Wong, Kar-wai, 1958- > Criticism and interpretation
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Summary:Ma offers an innovative study of three provocative Chinese directors: Wong Kar-wai, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang. Focusing on the highly stylized and nonlinear configurations of time in each director's films, she argues that these directors have brought new global respect for Chinese cinema in amplifying motifs of loss, nostalgia, haunting, absence and ephemeral poetics. Hou, Tsai, and Wong all insist on the significance of being out of time, not merely out of place, as a condition of global modernity. Ma argues that their films collectively foreground the central place of contemporary Chinese films in a transnational culture of memory, characterized by a distinctive melancholy that highlights the difficulty of binding together past and present into a meaningful narrative.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-191) and index
ISBN:9789888028054
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