Body in Question: Image and Illusion in Two Chinese Films by Director Jiang Wen

by Jerome Silbergeld

In the Heat of the Sun and Devils on the Doorstep are two of the finest and most honored Chinese films ever made. Body in Question is the first book to thoroughly examine these groundbreaking works and one of the first books in English to study individual Chinese films in depth.

These two award-winning films by renowned director-actor Jiang Wen and cinematographer Gu Changwei are unsurpassed in China for their exquisite...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691139466
• ISBN13: 9780691139463
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.2" x 10.2"