Semiotics of exile in contemporary Chinese film
By: Hong Zeng
Series: Semiotics and popular culture
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9781137002396
Subjects: Motion pictures; Emigration and immigration in motion pictures; Displacement (Psychology) in motion pictures; Symbolism in motion pictures
Description: viii, 177 p. ; 23 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Semiotics of photography and exile; title: Postmodernism and semiotics of exile; title: Female doubling and postcolonial exile; title: Semiotics of exile and genre upsetting: Xin Jin's subversion of melodrama in "Hibiscus town"; title: Failure of root-searching in Cheng Kaige; title: Semiotics of exile and displaced film codes: Jia Zhangke's three films; title: Conclusion.