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Sentimental fabulations, contemporary Chinese films : attachment in the age of global visibility /

Chow, Rey.

Sentimental fabulations, contemporary Chinese films : attachment in the age of global visibility / Rey Chow. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2007. - xii, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; pbk. - Film and culture series . - Film and culture. .

CW027

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-250) and index.

The deductions of homecoming : Temptress moon and the question of origins -- Nostalgia of the New Wave : romance, domesticity, and the longing for oneness in Happy together -- The everyday in The road home and In the mood for love : from the legacy of socialism to the potency of Yuan -- Autumn hearts : filming feminine "psychic interiority" in Song of the exile -- By way of mass commodities : love in Comrades, almost a love story -- All Chinese families are alike : biopolitics in Eat a bowl of tea and The wedding banquet -- The political economy of vision in Happy times and Not one less; or, A different type of migration -- "Human" in the age of disposable people : the ambiguous import of kinship and education in Blind shaft -- 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".

0231133324 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231133326 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231133332 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780231133333 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780231508193 (ebook) 0231508190 (ebook) 9780231133326: £45.00

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Motion pictures--China
Motion pictures--Social aspects--China
Films, cinema
China

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