A LOOK AT THE FAMILY STRUCTURE AND CINEMATIC IDEOLOGY IN DIRECTOR ANG LEE’S FILMS: LIFE BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
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Abstract
This article analyses the family structure commonly seen in director Ang Lee's trilogy of films about families (Pushing Hands (1991), The Wedding Banquet (1993), Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), also known as Ang Lee's family trilogy or "Father Knows Best Trilogy") and divides them into three types of structures: the missing structure, the swap structure, and the fusion structure. It also explores the way Lee uses his films as a means to express his ideas about the way certain Asian families struggle to incorporate a combination of Eastern and Western ideology, as well as traditional and modern thought.
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family structure, cinematic ideology, Ang Lee, Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman
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