WASTE, BOREDOM, AND GHOSTLY TIME IN THE FILMS OF TSAI MING-LIANG

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https://doi.org/10.5902/2175497766690

Mots-clés :

Waste, Boredom, The body, Ghostly time, Modernity

Résumé

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 become
a heavy burden on his characters.

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Biographie de l'auteur-e

Raymond Watkins, The University of North Caroline at Pembroke, EUA

Teaches in the English Department at The Pennsylvania State University. His research
interests include visual rhetoric, the interarts, the European avant-garde, film and visual
culture, and twentieth-century European culture. His book, Late Bresson and the Visual Arts:
Cinema, Painting and Avant-Garde Experiment (University of Amsterdam Press, 2018), uses
the framework of media archaeology to examine the neglected color films of the French
filmmaker Robert Bresson (1901-1999).

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Publié-e

2021-07-12

Comment citer

Watkins, R. (2021). WASTE, BOREDOM, AND GHOSTLY TIME IN THE FILMS OF TSAI MING-LIANG. Animus. Revista Interamericana De Comunicação Midiática, 20(43). https://doi.org/10.5902/2175497766690

Numéro

Vol. 20 No. 43 (2021)

Rubrique

CULTURAL & TECHNOLOGICAL IMAGES

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