| Lightness of Being in China: Adaptation and Discursive Figuration in Cinema and Theater Contributor(s): Kuoshu, Harry H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820445436 ISBN-13: 9780820445434 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $78.80 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - Drama | Asian - General - Foreign Language Study | Miscellaneous |
| Dewey: 792.095 |
| LCCN: 99026969 |
| Series: Asian Thought and Culture |
| Physical Information: 185 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This study investigates how ideological discourses in China, especially the national-culture and social-class discourses, dictate cinematic and theatrical figuration. It focuses on a few groups of figures, on screen or stage, to explore their changes (refigurations) as they are adapted from literary texts. It illustrates how social and cultural concerns, at various moments in recent Chinese history, wrestle with each other for an ideologically figurative genesis. Providing insightful contextual overviews supported by the richness of textual details, the study promotes an educated understanding of recent Chinese representation, especially that in cinema. |