Document Type
Article
Abstract
Farewell My Concubine (1993), one of the representative works of the Fifth Generation directors, delivers the sentiments and psychological effects and affects of those who live within ongoing upheavals and traumas in modern-nation building. Although the characters themselves do not recognize the incidents as shocking, they need time to mourn and work through their experiences, when they return to normalcy. And yet they are living with continuous and repetitive shocks, so that living with trauma and expecting to encounter it becomes their normalcy, a part of their life.
Repository Citation
Lee, Eunah. "Excess and Affect in Post‐Traumatic Cinema: Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine (1993)." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 16, no. 2, 2016, pp. 1–17. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol16/iss2/18