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

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"In the Heat of the Sun" and "Devils on the Doorstep" are two of the finest and most honored Chinese films ever made. This title examines these works. It uses cinema and photography, political history, anthropology and philosophy, Chinese rhetorical traditions, and concepts of justice to explore the films' visual complexity and intellectual force.

Jerome Silbergeld is the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History at Princeton University. His books include "China into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema" and "Hitchcock with a Chinese Face: Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and China's Moral Voice".

"As a sustained inquiry into the meaning of body expression, Body in Question is well worth reading, and invites us to view Jiang Wen's two seminal films anew."--Robin Visser, Journal of Contemporary Asia