From Eileen Chang to Ang Lee : Lust/Caution /: Lust/Caution. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editied by Peng Hsiao-yen and Whitney Crothers Dilley.
• Other Names: Hsiao-yen, Peng; Dilley, Whitney Crothers
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Adaptation as translation, betrayal, or consumption; 2 Eros, subjectivity, and collective memory through performance; 3 Identity politics and global cultural economy; Notes; Part I: Adaptation as translation, betrayal, or consumption; 1. Montage of attractions: juxtaposing Lust/Caution; Montage initiated: Deutscher Schäferhund; Deutscher Schäferhund redux; Dialectical montage: juxtaposition, collision. Montage of attractions: is it real, the sex?1 Attraction as action construction, not the static reflection of an event; 2 Real attraction relies on the spectator's reaction, not merely the performer's skill; 3 The spectator's reaction should derive from an emotional shock; Conclusion: rewriting and overwriting Eileen Chang; Notes; 2. Two versions of Sejie: fiction and film -- views from a common reader; Eileen Chang's fiction; Ang Lee's film; Notes. 3. Sado-masochism, steamy sex, and Shanghai glitter: what's love got to do with it? A 'philologist' looks at Lust/Caution and the literary texts that inspired itNotes; 4. Cannibal, class, betrayal: Eileen Chang and Ang Lee; Animal magnetism; Comparison with Ri Koran; Real sex; Notes; Part II: Eros, subjectivity, and collective memory; 5. Eros impossible and Eros of the impossible in Lust/Caution: the Shanghai lady/baby in the late 1930s and early 1940s; "The Lust/Caution phenomenon": politics, mass media, and the box office in post-colonial Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China. The integrity of the film structure and the disintegrity of the story strategyFrom Eros to Eros impossible: story, script, and screen; From Eros impossible to Eros of the impossible: affections, attachments, adventure, abandon and awareness of the Shanghai baby/lady; Conclusion; Notes; 6. Self as performance, lust as betrayal in the theatre of war; Notes; 7. The "real" Wang Jiazhi: taboo, transgression, and truth in Lust/Caution; Bataille: taboo and transgression -- heightening the allure of transgression; Mahjong, high society, and Western cultural influences. Duplicity in other Ang Lee works, and the "real" Wang JiazhiPart III: Identity politics and global cultural economy; 8. Becoming noir; Sartor resartus: leitmotive film or film noir?; Becoming noir; The state of film noir studies, or The Big Sleep; The Nietzschean turn; The state of noir, or Deleuze with Lacan; The nation and the whores; Notes; 9. Woman as metaphor: how Lust/Caution re/deconstructs history; "Saving history": whose history?; Performativity and patriotism; A woman who refuses to cooperate; The image of a collaborator; Woman: metaphor for the "age of innocence"; Notes.
• Publisher Details: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon New York : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 216)
• Subjects: 791.4 23; Chinese literature -- Film adaptations; PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference; Chinese literature; Adaption; Electronic books; Film adaptations
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317911029; 1317911024; 9781306320337; 9781315849829; 1315849828
• Related ISBNs: 130632033X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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