Bøker av Rey (Duke University) Chow

Rey Chow rearticulates the plight of the humanities in the age of global finance and neoliberal mores through a focus on Foucault's concept "outside." She foregrounds a nonutilitarian approach, stressing anew the intellectual and pedagogical objectives fundamental to humanistic inquiry.

What is the sentimental? How can we understand it by way of the visual and narrative modes of signification specific to cinema and through the manners of social interaction and collective imagining specific to a particular culture in transition? This book explores these questions through contemporary Chinese directors.