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Record Nr.

UNINA9911002589603321

Autore

Tang Pao-chen

Titolo

The Animist Imagination in East Asian Cinema

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

1-04-079973-6

1-003-70515-4

1-04-077383-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 pages)

Collana

Critical Asian Cinemas Series ; ; v.8

Disciplina

791.43095

Soggetti

Motion pictures - History

Motion pictures - Economic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements Introduction: Cinematic Animism and Its Shamans Chapter One: The Child and the Balloon Chapter Two: The Child and the Train Chapter Three: Spectrum Animality Chapter Four: In the Snow Chapter Five: A Tale of the Evil Wind Coda Bibliography List of Illustrations Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Whispering winds, speeding trains, wandering balloons, and swirling snowflakes--these are the living entities that humans find themselves enmeshed with in their ecological co-flourishing in contemporary East Asian cinema.