Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility

by Rey Chow

Book Overview

What is the sentimental? How can we understand it by way of the visual and narrative modes of signification specific to cinema and through the manners of social interaction and collective imagining specific to a particular culture in transition? What can the sentimental tell us about the precarious foundations of human coexistence in this age of globalization?

Rey Chow explores these questions through nine contemporary Chinese directors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231133332
• ISBN13: 9780231133333
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 8.9"