Faith, Film, & Philosophy, ch. 13

This was my least favorite chapter. I appreciate what Corduan was trying to say, but I found myself disinterested. He gave a framework for understanding Hong Kong films:
- the Daoist funeral sets important patterns for how any story is acted out in Chinese culture.
- the Chinese theater is part of the dramatic tradition.
- the Peking Opera as an art form sheds light on the story
These are helpful points that may perhaps help me to more deeply appreciate Chinese film. I have to say, whatever momentum was building was destroyed by the statement that "Westerners are depicted as rapacious colonialists and slave traders who kidnap young men and women and ship them off to (America) - foreign devils". While I appreciate that there is a sense of right triumphing over wrong, I don't know that I will be any more appreciative than I am (which is little).