| Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture Contributor(s): Chow, Rey (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822352168 ISBN-13: 9780822352167 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $94.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 306 |
| LCCN: 2011041898 |
| Series: John Hope Franklin Center Book |
| Physical Information: 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How might the pornographic be associated with Brecht's and Benjamin's media theories? How are Foucault's and Deleuze's writings on visibilities "postcolonial"? What happens when Ranci re's discussions of art are juxtaposed with cultural anthropology? What does a story by Lao She about collecting reveal about political collectivism in modern China? How does Girard's notion of mimetic violence speak to identity politics? How might Arendt's and Derrida's reflections on forgiveness be supplemented by a film by Lee Chang-dong? What can Akira Kurosawa's films about Japan say about American Studies? How is Asia framed transnationally, with what consequences for those who self-identify as Asian? These questions are dispersively heterologous yet mutually implicated. This paradoxical character of their discursive relations is what Rey Chow intends with the word "entanglements," by which she means, first, an enmeshment of topics: the mediatized image in modernist reflexivity; captivation and identification; victimhood; the place of East Asia in globalized Western academic study. Beyond enmeshment, she asks, can entanglements be phenomena that are not defined by affinity or proximity? Might entanglements be about partition and disparity rather than about conjunction and similarity? |