An Analysis of Primitive Passions, a Book by Rey Chow (2857 words, 4 pages)
Third and Fifth generation Chinese films The "organization" of Red Sorghum (1987) rearranges the past, mythical and factual, to encapsulate Zhang Yimou's vision of "Chineseness." Rey Chow, in her book Primitive Passions, characterizes Zhang Yimou as appropriating a certain vision of a China past, to create a pragmatic version of ...
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