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Cruisy, sleepy, melancholy : sexual disorientation in the films of Tsai Ming-liang

Title
Cruisy, sleepy, melancholy : sexual disorientation in the films of Tsai Ming-liang / Nicholas de Villiers.
Author
De Villiers, Nicholas
Publication
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]

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Description
xiv, 219 pages : illustrations (black and white); 23 cm
Summary
"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 Tsai's films, drawing on extensive interviews with the director while also offering a complete reappraisal of Tsai's body of work"--
Subject
  • Cai, Mingliang, 1957- > Criticism and interpretation
  • Cai, Mingliang, 1957-
  • Motion pictures > Taiwan > History
  • Sexual minorities in motion pictures
  • Motion pictures
  • Criticism and interpretation
  • Taiwan
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Film criticism.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-188) and index.
Contents
Preface: Queer Metacinema: It's a Dream -- Introduction: Feeling Melancholy, Cruisy, Sleepy -- Spatial and Sexual Disorientation: Vive L'Amour and I Don't Want to Sleep Alone -- Leaving the Cinema: Metacinematic Cruising in Goodbye, Dragon Inn -- Queer Camp and Porn Musicals: The Hole and The Wayward Cloud -- Different Time Zones: What Time Is It There? and Visage -- Haunted, Rented, Queer Spaces: From Vive L'Amour to Stray Dogs -- Conclusion: Expanded Cinema, Sleepovers, and Cruising the Museum.
Call Number
MWES (Cai, M.) 22-4760
ISBN
  • 9781517913182
  • 1517913187
  • 9781517913175
  • 1517913179
LCCN
  • 2022015146
  • 40031342328
OCLC
1303667079
Author
De Villiers, Nicholas, author.
Title
Cruisy, sleepy, melancholy : sexual disorientation in the films of Tsai Ming-liang / Nicholas de Villiers.
Publisher
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-188) and index.
Other Form:
Online version: De Villiers, Nicholas. Cruisy, sleepy, melancholy Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2022 9781452967806 (DLC) 2022015147
Other Standard Identifier
40031342328
Research Call Number
MWES (Cai, M.) 22-4760
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