WASTE, BOREDOM, AND GHOSTLY TIME IN THE FILMS OF TSAI MING-LIANG
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https://doi.org/10.5902/2175497766690Schlagworte:
Waste, Boredom, The body, Ghostly time, ModernityAbstract
This study examines several themes that often emerge in the work of Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang, focusing on his preoccupation with waste, boredom, and a secret, “ghostly” time that runs parallel to human time. While comparisons are inevitably drawn to the French New Wave in terms of attitudes toward modernity, I argue that Tsai develops a much different tone. While the French New Wave might best be characterized by freshness, naivieté, improvisation, playfulness, and a sense of possibility, then Tsai instead offers a much more bleak, post-apocalyptic world in which the consequences of advanced modernity now becomea heavy burden on his characters.
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