Theorizing Ambivalence in Ang Lee's Transnational Cinema (Framing Film)
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (661 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1433119323 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 132 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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She has also published several articles including «Diasporic Theorizing Paradigm on Cultural Identity» in Intercultural Communication Studies and «Representing Chineseness in Globalized Cultural Production: Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine» in China Media Research.. Chih-Yun Chiang received her MA
Fascinating, and overall a valuable contribution -- JNagarya But I wish academia, and academics, would outgrow -- and drop -- the "deconstriuction" nonsense, which tends to be a verbose (and even petty) metaphor for a confused nihilism.Worse -- if possible -- it tends to be based upon naive, unevaluated presumptions which are unconsciously, conformizingly treated as truisms. Thus we have the absurd notion that race (as distinguished from rac_ism_) is a "socal construct," despite the facts of objective racial differences.As result of that current fad and fetish, much useful thought
Through the study of the representation of Chineseness, this book expands the theoretical discussions on the politics of national identity and cultural syncretism represented in transnational cinema and further provides a good example of the familiar cycle of ambivalent emotion toward the West in the aftermath of postcolonialism. The analyses of these films and the audience discourse are essential to an understanding of the ways in which new media technologies impact and alter the human interactions between peoples from various cultural, social, and political contexts.. China and Taiwan’s long history of engaging in a subordinate relationship with the West enhances the resurgence of ambivalence. The representations become a significant and predominant wa
Theorizing Ambivalence in Ang Lee's Transnational Cinema is a theoretically insightful and methodologically provocative book." --Darrin Hicks, Department of Communication Studies, University of Denver. Chiang reveals how transnational cinema can function as a crucial site of cultural performance and contestation. "In this rich and informative book, Chih-Yun Chiang has developed an account of cultural ambivalence that challenges any notion of cultural identity as static, state-centered, or ideologically determined. Through her detailed analysis of how audiences in China and Taiwan use online-forums to debate the meaning and significance of Ang Lee's films, Dr