Description: A brilliant approach to the queerness of one of Taiwan's greatest auteurs A critical figure in queer Sinophone cinema-and the first director ever commissioned to create a film for the permanent collection of the Louvre-Tsai Ming-liang is a major force in Taiwan cinema and global moving image art. Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy offers a fascinating, systematic method for analyzing the queerness of Tsai's films. Nicholas de Villiers argues that Tsai expands and revises the notion of queerness by engaging with the sexuality of characters who are migrants, tourists, diasporic, or otherwise displaced. Through their lack of fixed identities, these characters offer a clear challenge to the binary division between heterosexuality and homosexuality, as well as the Orientalist binary division of Asia versus the West. Ultimately, de Villiers explores how Tsai's films help us understand queerness in terms of spatial, temporal, and sexual disorientation. Conceiving of Tsai's cinema as an intertextual network, Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy makes an important addition to scholarly work on Tsai in English. It draws on extensive interviews with the director, while also offering a complete reappraisal of Tsai's body of work. Contributing to queer film theory and the aesthetics of displacement, Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy reveals striking connections between sexuality, space, and cinema.
Price: 50.02 AUD
Location: Hillsdale, NSW
End Time: 2025-01-11T08:25:51.000Z
Shipping Cost: 25.37 AUD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Return policy details:
EAN: 9781517913182
UPC: 9781517913182
ISBN: 9781517913182
MPN: N/A
Format: Paperback, 216 pages
Author: de Villiers, Nicholas
Book Title: Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation
Item Height: 1.5 cm
Item Length: 21.3 cm
Item Weight: 0.24 kg
Item Width: 13.7 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
