The Animist Imagination in East Asian Cinema
Whispering winds, speeding trains, wandering balloons, and swirling snowflakes—these are the living entities that humans find themselves enmeshed with in their ecological co-flourishing in contemporary East Asian cinema. Pao-chen Tang theorizes and analyzes this animist imagination—a new mode of fil...
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| description | Whispering winds, speeding trains, wandering balloons, and swirling snowflakes—these are the living entities that humans find themselves enmeshed with in their ecological co-flourishing in contemporary East Asian cinema. Pao-chen Tang theorizes and analyzes this animist imagination—a new mode of filmmaking that delves into both the definition of the cinematic medium and how to live with the nonhuman. Moving images are animate beings and the animism of cinema further compels an eye-opening vision to examine East Asian history and ecological anxieties of our times. The shamanic protagonists of the animist imagination transform the worldly and medial figurations onscreen into thought experiments on human-nonhuman relationality, modelling for the viewers anti-anthropocentric forms of existence and action. The book distills this form of agency through a systematic analysis of narrative structures, stylistic devices, and cultural implications in a stunning demonstration of a world viewed and enacted otherwise. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1596632025-05-29T05:18:44Z The Animist Imagination in East Asian Cinema Tang, Pao-chen Ecocinema, East Asian cinema, film theory and criticism, animism, human-nonhuman relation thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFN Film: styles and genres thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRR Other religions and spiritual beliefs::QRRV Animism and Shamanism thema EDItEUR::V Health, Relationships and Personal development::VX Mind, body, spirit::VXP Psychic powers and psychic phenomena::VXPR The afterlife, reincarnation and past lives thema EDItEUR::V Health, Relationships and Personal development::VX Mind, body, spirit::VXW Mysticism, magic and occult interests::VXWS Shamanism, paganism and Druidry Whispering winds, speeding trains, wandering balloons, and swirling snowflakes—these are the living entities that humans find themselves enmeshed with in their ecological co-flourishing in contemporary East Asian cinema. Pao-chen Tang theorizes and analyzes this animist imagination—a new mode of filmmaking that delves into both the definition of the cinematic medium and how to live with the nonhuman. Moving images are animate beings and the animism of cinema further compels an eye-opening vision to examine East Asian history and ecological anxieties of our times. The shamanic protagonists of the animist imagination transform the worldly and medial figurations onscreen into thought experiments on human-nonhuman relationality, modelling for the viewers anti-anthropocentric forms of existence and action. The book distills this form of agency through a systematic analysis of narrative structures, stylistic devices, and cultural implications in a stunning demonstration of a world viewed and enacted otherwise. 2025-05-17T05:09:59Z 2025-05-17T05:09:59Z 2025-05-16T09:25:32Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101880 9789048563999 9789048564002 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159663 eng Critical Asian Cinemas open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101880/1/9789048571840.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101880/1/9789048571840.epub Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789048563999 10.5117/9789048563999 de2ecbe7-1037-4e96-8c3a-5a842d921e04 9789048563999 9789048564002 246 Amsterdam open access |
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