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

Rey Chow

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Paper, 288 pages, 12 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13333-3
$25.00 / £17.50

March, 2007
Cloth, 288 pages, 12 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13332-6
$75.00 / £52.00

"[Chow] captivates us with her challenging and refreshing arguments. Highly recommended." — Library Journal

"A thoughtful discussion of nine contemporary Chinese directors and their cinematic accomplishments." — James A. Cox, The Midwest Book Review

"Through Chow's perspective, the sentimental thus becomes a productive and promising concept for understanding national cinema." — Kristi McKim, Film Quarterly

"Chow’s scholarship is consistently superior in its provocative arguments for humanistic concerns and its impressive coverage of secondary sources. " — Howard Y. F. Choy, The China JournalWittenberg University

"Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films is a thought-inspiring work of scholarship." — Jie Li, Journal of Film and Video

"a thought-inspiring work of scholarship" — Journal of Film and Video

"A brilliant new book . . . Essential for all literary, cinema, and cultural studies scholars." — E. Ann Kaplan, Director of the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook

Related Subjects

• Film

Series

• Film and Culture Series

About the Author

Rey Chow is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University where she holds appointments in comparative literature, English, and modern culture and media. The books she has authored since 1991 include Woman and Chinese Modernity, Writing Diaspora, Primitive Passions, Ethics After Idealism, The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism, and The Age of the World Target.Rey Chow is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. She is the author of Woman and Chinese Modernity (Minnesota, 1991), Writing Diaspora (Indiana, 1993), Primitive Passions (Columbia, 1995), Ethics After Idealism (Indiana, 1998), and The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism (CUP, 2002).

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