Columbia University Press
The Cinema of Ang Lee
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Jerome Silbergeld, Princeton University:
Writing about film is no easy task and writing about great film even harder. Ang Lee's films include not only three Academy Award winners, The Life of Pi, Brokeback Mountain, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but also less familiar masterpieces like Lust|Caution, Ride with the Devil, The Ice Storm, and Eat Drink Man Woman. Whitney Dilley's study of Ang Lee's art is written with remarkable clarity, insight, and compassion. It is a model of fine film literature.
Sheldon Lu, University of California at Davis:
The Cinema of Ang Lee is the most comprehensive study of Ang Lee and all the films directed by him to date. It tells the extraordinary story of a Taiwan-born Chinese director within the global contexts of diaspora, transnationalism, Chinese-language cinema, American cinema, and world cinema. The book is full of interesting details, and is written in a lucid, accessible style that will be appreciated by readers and moviegoers interested in this director.
Barbara Kline, Seattle Pacific University:
Dilley not only provides an in-depth overview of Ang Lee's contribution to film, but also gives crucial contextualization for East-West film studies and theoretical approaches, as well as providing careful study of significant themes in Lee's personal life which molded him as a film director. This is an enormous amount of territory to cover. Dilley does it well with scholarly rigor in a tone of exploration and wonder.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Note on Transliteration
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1. Introduction: Ang Lee – A History
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2. Ang Lee as Director: His Position in Asian and World Cinema
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3. Confucian Values and Cultural Displacement in Pushing Hands
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4. Transgressing Boundaries of Gender and Culture in The Wedding Banquet
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5. Globalization and Cultural Identity in Eat Drink Man Woman
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6. Opposition and Resolution in Sense and Sensibility
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7. Fragmentary Narratives/Fragmented Identities in The Ice Storm
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8. Race, Gender, Class, and Social Identity in Ride with the Devil
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9. Wuxia Narrative and Transnational Chinese Identity in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
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10. The Ultimate Outsider: Hulk
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11. Transcending Gender in Brokeback Mountain
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12. Eroticism and Performance in Lust/Caution
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13. Memory, Narrative, and Transformation in Taking Woodstock
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14. Storytelling and Truth in Life of Pi: A Spiritual Journey
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15. Conclusion: The Dream of Cinema
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Notes
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Bibliography
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