Public Secrets, Public Spaces: Cinema and Civility in China

Donald, Stephanie Hemelryk

ISBN 10: 0847698777 ISBN 13: 9780847698776

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000

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Book by Donald Stephanie Hemelryk

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Críticas:

This book is theoretically sophisticated and draws from impressively diverse disciplines, including anthropology, gender and feminist studies, screen studies, communication, and China studies. Also worthy of note is the author's thoughtfulness and self-reflectivity in terms of her own cultural positioning, hew relationships to film texts, as well as analytical methods adopted. The emphasis on publicness which runs throughout the book adds an important dimension to the literature on Chinese cinema. The book should be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students working in the areas of cinema studies, media studies, Chinese studies, feminist studies, cultural studies, and cultural anthropology. * The Australian Journal Of Anthropology *

Reseña del editor:

Public Secrets, Public Spaces explores the possibility of symbolic public space in the context of Chinese cinema. Focusing especially on women, children, and the dispossessed, Stephanie H. Donald looks at the ways public space is constructed and occupied and how it interacts with Opublic secrets,O the unstated common-sense knowledges of everyday life, extraordinary to those who are not initiated into the routines of a particular cultural place and space. In traditional societies public secrets are organized through observable ritual; in modern societies they are embedded in the cultural discourse of the routine and the everyday. As we see in this perceptive book, film offers a rich medium for unearthing these secrets.

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• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0847698777
• ISBN 13: 9780847698776
• Einband: Libro de texto
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224