The Rey Chow Reader / / Rey Chow; ed. by Paul Bowman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Chow, Rey,
• HerausgeberIn: Bowman, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 2 illus.

Rey Chow is arguably one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. Characteristically confronting both entrenched and emergent issues in the interlocking fields of literature, film and visual studies, sexuality and gender, postcolonialism, ethnicity, and cross-cultural pol...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Editor's Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• Part 1. Modernity and Postcolonial Ethnicity
• 1. The Age of the World Target: Atomic Bombs, Alterity, Area Studies
• 2. The Postcolonial Difference: Lessons in Cultural Legitimation
• 3. From Writing Diaspora: Introduction: Leading Questions
• 4. Brushes with the-Other-as-Face: Stereotyping and Cross-Ethnic R Representation
• 5. The Politics of Admittance: Female Sexual Agency, Miscegenation, and the Formation of Community in Frantz Fanon
• 6. When Whiteness Feminizes: Some Consequences of a Supplementary Logic
• Part 2. Filmic Visuality and Transcu cultural Politics
• 7. Film and Cultural Identity
• 8. Seeing Modern China: Toward a Theory of Ethnic Spectatorship
• 9. The Dream of a Butterfly
• 10. Film as Ethnography; or, Translation Between Cultures in the Postcolonial World
• 11. A Filmic Staging of Postwar Geotemporal Politics: On Akira Kurosawa's No Regrets for Our Youth, Sixty Years Later
• 12. From Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility
• 13. The Political Economy of Vision in Happy Times and Not One Less; or, a Different Type of Migration
• Notes
• Index