Melancholy Drift Marking Time in Chinese Cinema
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9789888028054 |
Publisher: | Hong Kong University Press |
Imprint: | Hong Kong University Press |
Pub date: | 01 Jun 2010 |
DEWEY: | 791.430951 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 203 |
Weight: | 1094g |
Height: | 9mm |
Width: | 6mm |
Spine width: | 15mm |