| Subject |
Se, jie (Motion picture)
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Lee, Ang, 1954-
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Chinese literature -- Film adaptations.
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| Descript |
xiv, 216 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Adaptation as translation, betrayal, or consumption -- Montage of attractions: juxtaposing Lust/caution -- Two versions of Se jie: fiction and film - views from a common reader -- Sado-masochism, steamy sex, and Shanghai glitter: what's love got to do with it? - a 'philologist' looks at Lust/caution and the literary texts that inspired it -- Cannibal, class, betrayal: Eileen Chang and Ang Lee pt. 2. Eros, subjectivity, and collective memory -- Eros impossible and eros of the impossible in Lust/caution: the Shanghai lady/baby in the late 1930s and early 1940s -- Self as performance, lust as betrayal in the theatre of war -- The "real" Wang Jiazhi: taboo, transgression, and truth in Lust/caution -- pt. 3. Identity politics and global cultural economy -- Becoming noir -- Woman as metaphor: how Lust/caution re/deconstructs history -- The transnational affect: cold anger, hot tears, and Lust/caution. |
| Alt author |
Peng, Xiaoyan, 1952-
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Dilley, Whitney Crothers
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| ISBN |
9780415731201 (hbk.) |
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0415731208 (hbk.) |
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