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

Preface and Acknowledgments

Note on Transcriptions

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,a nd 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...

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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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