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7%OFFRey Chow - Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking About Capture - 9780822352303 - V9780822352303
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Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking About Capture

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Description for Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking About Capture Paperback. This follow-up volume to our book The Age of the World Target collects interconnected entangled essays of literary and cultural theorist Rey Chow. The essays take up ideas of violence, capture, identification, temporality, sacrifice, and victimhood, engaging with theorists from Derrida and Deleuze to Agamben and Ranciere. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4 photographs. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 299.
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 Rancière'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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
A John Hope Franklin Center Book
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822352303
SKU
V9780822352303
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About Rey Chow
Rey Chow is Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Age of the World Target, also published by Duke University Press.

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“Whatever concepts Rey Chow writes about, whether it is capture, the postcolonial, or sacrifice, she always manages to produce a positive sense about them. Not ‘positive’ in the convention of spin that nowadays supports almost every cultural event or object; Chow is positive because she intelligently entangles each of her concepts with ideas that one may not expect to find ... Read more

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