{"product_id":"cruisy-sleepy-melancholy-sexual-disorientation-in-the-films-of-tsai-ming-liang-paperback","title":"Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNicholas De Villiers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant approach to the queerness of one of Taiwan's greatest auteurs\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\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\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicholas de Villiers is professor of English and film at the University of North Florida. He is author of \u003ci\u003eOpacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSexography: Sex Work in Documentary\u003c\/i\u003e, both from Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 27, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42157505937543,"sku":"9781517913182","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/02d9c01c3759b1490f35f39e280ab67a.webp?v=1733251390","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/cruisy-sleepy-melancholy-sexual-disorientation-in-the-films-of-tsai-ming-liang-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}