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Through suggestive readings of gender and identity, this book explores the international appeal of an acclaimed contemporary director. The author has revised the books introduction to reflect Ang Lees new films and their global reception and adds to the text a consideration of new developments in Chinese film, recent critiques of Brokeback Mountain (2005), and chapters on Lust/Caution (2007), Taking Woodstock (2009), and Life of Pi (2012).
List of contents
AcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration1. Introduction: Ang Lee -- A History2. Ang Lee as Director: His Position in Asian and World Cinema3. Confucian Values and Cultural Displacement in Pushing Hands4. Transgressing Boundaries of Gender and Culture in The Wedding Banquet5. Globalization and Cultural Identity in Eat Drink Man Woman6. Opposition and Resolution in Sense and Sensibility7. Fragmentary Narratives/Fragmented Identities in The Ice Storm8. Race, Gender, Class, and Social Identity in Ride with the Devil9. Wuxia Narrative and Transnational Chinese Identity in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon10. The Ultimate Outsider: Hulk11. Transcending Gender in Brokeback Mountain12. Eroticism and Performance in Lust/Caution13. Memory, Narrative, and Transformation in Taking Woodstock14. Storytelling and Truth in Life of Pi: A Spiritual Journey15. Conclusion: The Dream of CinemaNotesBibliographyIndex
About the author
Whitney Crothers Dilley is professor in the Department of English with a dual appointment in the Graduate School of Gender Studies at Shih Hsin University in Taipei, Taiwan. She is also editor, with Peng-hsiang Chen, of Feminism/Femininity in Chinese Literature.
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Suggestive readings of gender and identity explore the international appeal of Ang Lee
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"Dilley not only provides an in-depth overview of Ang Lees contribution to film, but also gives crucial contextualization for East-West film studies and theoretical approaches, as well as providing careful study of significant themes in Lees personal life which molded him as a film director. This is an enormous amount of territory to cover. Dilley does it well with scholarly rigor in a tone of exploration and wonder." - Barbara Kline, Seattle Pacific University
