{"product_id":"cruisy-sleepy-melancholy-sexual-disorientation-in-the-films-of-tsai-ming-liang-paperback-softback-9781517913182","title":"Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy; Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang (Paperback \/ softback) 9781517913182","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNicholas de Villiers (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517913182\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 September 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e216 pages, 17 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.227 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Condensed and intimate, \u003ci\u003eCruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e offers a systematic and insightful method to approach the queerness of Tsai Ming-liang's cinema, presenting a renewed understanding of queerness and queering in relation to the cinema as a medium and to queer politics and power relations that are specific to East and Southeast Asian cinemas\"-Victor Fan, author of \u003ci\u003eCinema Illuminating Reality: Media Philosophy through Buddhism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eCruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e is an elucidating work... Apart from that it sheds new light on one of Taiwan’s best-known filmmakers, it lays out a new way of interpreting Tsai’s works that draws on history, the urban fabric, affect, while opening the way for creative readings of Tsai. The book adds to and also builds on our understanding of Tsai, while also pushing beyond, and being more than that.\"-Brian Hioe,\u003ci\u003e No Man Is an Island\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"In \u003ci\u003eCruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang, \u003c\/i\u003eNicholas de Villiers illuminates Tsai’s complicated and opaque filmography by unpacking the complex intersectional pieces of the director’s identity and thematic output.\"-\u003ci\u003eFilm Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant approach to the queerness of one of Taiwan’s greatest auteurs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eCruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fascinating, systematic method for analyzing the queerness of Tsai’s films.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNicholas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConceiving of Tsai’s cinema as an intertextual network, \u003ci\u003eCruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy \u003c\/i\u003emakes 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, \u003ci\u003eCruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e reveals striking connections between sexuality, space, and cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523256774936,"sku":"9781517913182","price":18.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/cruisy-sleepy-melancholy-sexual-disorientation-in-the-films-of-tsai-ming-liang-paperback-softback-9781517913182","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}