Primitive Passions - Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema

Klappentext For more than 150 years! greeting cards have tapped into and organized a shared language of love! affection! and kinship! becoming an integral part of American life and culture. Sumptuously illustrated! "A Token of My Affection" follows the evolution of the modern greeting card industry from a traditional printing and stationery business in the mid-nineteenth century to the multibillion-dollar industry it is today. Blending archival research in business history with a study of surviving artifacts and a literary analysis of a range of relevant texts and primary sources! Barry Shank demonstrates how greeting cards have affected and defined experiences of status! longing! desire! social connectedness! and love. Fascinating and surprising! "A Token of My Affection" shows what an industry devoted to emotional sincerity means for the lives of all Americans. Zusammenfassung Situating modern Chinese film within the broader context of Chinese history and culture! this study argues that the cinema in China belongs to a firm tradition of visual arts that has for many years been suppressed. It analyzes the emotional response to social! political and economic deprivations.

Product details

• Authors: Rey Chow, Rey (Duke University) Chow
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.03.1995
• EAN: 9780231076821
• ISBN: 978-0-231-07682-1
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Film and Culture Series; Wellek Library Lectures at the; Film and Culture Series; Wellek Library Lectures at the
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous