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Primitive Passions
Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema
by Rey Chow
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Book Presentation:
Chow situates contemporary Chinese film within the broad context of Chinese history and culture, giving readers a glimpse of the unique shared identity that characterizes the current crop of outstanding filmmakers, such as Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou.
About the Author:
Rey Chow is the author, most recently, of Ethics After Idealism: Theory-Culture-Ethnicity-Reading.
Press Reviews:
A rich and powerful work that provides both a dazzling synthesis of contemporary cultural theory and at the same time an exemplary critique of Chinese cinema. It is a book to be read and re-read and is thus highly recommended because it is more than a film book. It engages directly with the problems Chinese culture faces in a changing world. China Information
See the publisher website: Columbia University Press
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