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The philosophy of Ang Lee / edited by Robert Arp, Adam Barkman, and James McRae.
- Title
- The philosophy of Ang Lee / edited by Robert Arp, Adam Barkman, and James McRae.
- Publication
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2013.
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- Description
- 303 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The Philosophy of Ang Lee draws from both Eastern and Western philosophical traditions to examine the director{u2019}s works. The first section focuses on Taoist, Confucian, and Buddhist themes in his Chinese-language films, and the second examines Western philosophies in his English-language films; but the volume ultimately explores how Lee negotiates all of these traditions, strategically selecting from each in order to creatively address key issues. With interest in this filmmaker and his work increasing around the release of his 3-D magical adventure The Life of Pi (2012), The Philosophy of Ang Lee serves as a timely investigation of the groundbreaking auteur and the many complex philosophical themes that he explores through the medium of motion pictures--from publisher's website.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Conquering the self: Daoism, Confucianism, and the price of freedom in Crouching tiger, hidden dragon / James McRae -- What do you know of my heart? The role of sense and sensibility in Ang Lee's Sense and sensibility and Crouching tiger, hidden dragon / Renée Köhler-Ryan and Sydney Palmer -- The Confucian cowboy aesthetic / Michael Thompson -- East meets western: the eastern philosophy of Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain / Jeff Bush -- Landscape and gender in Ang Lee's Sense and sensibility and Brokeback Mountain / Misty Jameson and Patricia Brace -- Can't get no satisfaction: desires, rituals, and the search for harmony in Eat drink man woman / Carl J. Dull -- Paternalism, virtue ethics, and Ang Lee: does father really know best? / Ronda Lee Roberts -- Lust, caution: a case for perception, unimpeded / Basileios Kroustallis -- The power to go beyond God's boundaries? Hulk, human nature, and some ethical concerns thereof / Adam Barkman -- Displacement, deception, and disorder: Ang Lee's discourse of identity / Timothy M. Dale and Joseph J. Foy -- Subverting heroic violence: Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock and Hulk as antiwar narratives / David Zietsma -- Homo migrans: desexualization in Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock / Nancy Kang -- Because of the molecules: The ice storm and the philosophy of love and recognition / Susanne Schmetkamp -- It's existential: negative space and nothingness in The ice storm / David Koepsell -- The ice storm: what is impending? / George T. Hole -- All's fair in love and war? Machiavelli and Ang Lee's Ride with the devil / James Edwin Mahon.
- ISBN
- 9780813141664 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- 9780813141695 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
- 9780813141701 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2012050799
- OCLC
- 818735086
- SCSB-12458713
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library