Body in Question: Image and Illusion in Two Chinese Films by Director Jiang Wen
Author:   Jerome Silbergeld
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
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9780691139463


Pages:   176
Publication Date:   02 November 2008
Format:   Paperback
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Body in Question: Image and Illusion in Two Chinese Films by Director Jiang Wen


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Author:   Jerome Silbergeld
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.652kg
ISBN:  

9780691139463


ISBN 10:   0691139466
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   02 November 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 7 Introduction: Body Talk 9 Body Visible: In the Heat of the Sun 15 Body and the Beast: Devils on the Doorstep 69 Epilogue: Two Films and the ""Two Mountains"" 137 Notes 141 Bibliography 161 List of Illustrations 167 DVD Film Clips 169 Index 170

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"""As a sustained inquiry into the meaning of body expression, Body in Question is well worth reading, and invites us to view Jiang Wen's two seminal films anew.""--Robin Visser, Journal of Contemporary Asia"


As a sustained inquiry into the meaning of body expression, Body in Question is well worth reading, and invites us to view Jiang Wen's two seminal films anew. -- Robin Visser, Journal of Contemporary Asia


As a sustained inquiry into the meaning of body expression, Body in Question is well worth reading, and invites us to view Jiang Wen's two seminal films anew. -- Robin Visser, Journal of Contemporary Asia


As a sustained inquiry into the meaning of body expression, Body in Question is well worth reading, and invites us to view Jiang Wen's two seminal films anew. -- Robin Visser Journal of Contemporary Asia


Author Information

Jerome Silbergeld is the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History at Princeton University. His books include ""China into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema"" and ""Hitchcock with a Chinese Face: Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and China's Moral Voice"".

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