Description: Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy by Nicholas de Villiers Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description "A critical figure in queer Sinophone cinema, 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 Tsais films, drawing on extensive interviews with the director while also offering a complete reappraisal of Tsais body of work"-- Publisher Description A brilliant approach to the queerness of one of Taiwans 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 Tsais 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 Tsais films help us understand queerness in terms of spatial, temporal, and sexual disorientation.Conceiving of Tsais 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 Tsais body of work. Contributing to queer film theory and the aesthetics of displacement, Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy reveals striking connections between sexuality, space, and cinema. Author Biography Nicholas de Villiers is professor of English and film at the University of North Florida. He is author of Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol and Sexography: Sex Work in Documentary, both from Minnesota. Details ISBN 1517913179 ISBN-13 9781517913175 Title Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy Author Nicholas de Villiers Format Hardcover Year 2022 Pages 216 Publisher University of Minnesota Press GE_Item_ID:161854780; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9781517913175
Book Title: Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy : Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication Year: 2022
Subject: Gender Studies, Film / History & Criticism
Item Height: 0.5 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Nicholas De Villiers
Subject Area: Performing Arts, Social Science
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover