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    The Rey Chow Reader:
    Modernity, Postcolonial Ethnicity, Filmic Visuality, & Transcultural Politics Table of Contents Acknowledgements PREFACE: EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION: Paul Bowman
    
    Part 1 MODERNITY & POSTCOLONIAL ETHNICITY
    EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION: Paul Bowman 1. The Age of the World Target: Atomic Bombs, Alterity, Area Studies • • • • Seeing Is Destroying The World Becomes Virtual The Orbit of Self and Other From Atomic Bombs to Area Studies
    
    2. The postcolonial difference: lessons in cultural legitimation 3. Leading Questions, Writing Diaspora • • • • 4. Orientalism and East Asia: The Persistence of a Scholarly Tradition Sanctifying the “Subaltern”: The Productivity of White Guilt Tactics of Intervention The Chinese Lesson Brushes with Other as Face: Stereotyping and Cross-Ethnic
    
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    The Inevitability of Stereotypes
    
    5. The Politics of Admittance: Female Sexual Agency, Miscegenation, and the Formation of Community in Frantz Fanon • • • • • 6. Race and the Problem of Admittance Community Formation and Sexual Difference: A Double Theoretical Discourse What Does the Woman of Color Want? The Force of Miscegenation Community Building among Theorists of Postcoloniality When Whiteness Feminizes...: Some Consequences of a
    
    Supplementary Logic • Is “Woman” a Woman, a Man, or What? The Unstable Status of Woman in Contemporary Cultural Criticism
    
    Part 2 FILMIC VISUALITY & TRANSCULTURAL POLITICS
    EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION: Paul Bowman 7. Film and Cultural Identity 8. Seeing Modern China: Toward a Theory of Ethnic Spectatorship 9. The Dream of a Butterfly • • • • • • “East Is East and West Is West, and Ne’er the Twain Shall Meet” “The Beauty. . . of Her Death. It’s a . . . Pure Sacrifice.” The Force of Butterfly; or, the “Oriental Woman” as Phallus “Under the Robes, beneath Everything, It Was Always Me” “It’s Not the Story; It’s the Music” Madame Butterfly, C’est Moi
    
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    Coda: New Questions for Cultural Difference and Identity
    
    10. Film as Ethnography • • • • • • The Primacy of To-Be-Looked-At-ness Translation and the Problem of Origins Translation as “Cultural Resistance” The “Third Term” Weakness, Fluidity, and the Fabling of the World The Light of the Arcade
    
    11. A Filmic Staging of Postwar Geotemporal Politics: Kurosawa Akira’s No Regrets for Our Youth, Sixty Years Later 12. Sentimental Fabulations: Contemporary Chinese Films • • • • Where is the movie about me? Highlights of a Western Discipline Image, Time, Identity: Trajectories of Becoming Visible Defining the Sentimental in Relation to Contemporary Chinese Cinema
    
    13. ‘Woman,’ Fetish, Particularism: Articulating Chinese Cinema with a Cross-Cultural Problematic • • • ‘Woman’ as commodity and fetish: some observations about Chinese cinema Anglophone feminist film theory and the moral high ground of particularism Fetish power unbound
    
    NOTES INDEX

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