Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang by De Villiers, Nicholas

Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang

A brilliant approach to the queerness of one of Taiwan's greatest auteurs A critical figure in queer...
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Author: Nicholas De Villiers
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Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang by De Villiers, Nicholas

Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang

$377.50

Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang

$377.50
Author: Nicholas De Villiers
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

A brilliant approach to the queerness of one of Taiwan's greatest auteurs

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. Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy offers a fascinating, systematic method for analyzing the queerness of Tsai's films.

Nicholas 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.

Conceiving of Tsai's cinema as an intertextual network, Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy makes 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, Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy reveals striking connections between sexuality, space, and cinema.



Author: Nicholas De Villiers
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 09/27/2022
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781517913175

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