Fugu and cinetization in the Cinema of Ang Lee

Abstract

In this text a portion of cinema in the Chinese world is studied. The subject of study is the trilogy of Ang Lee (李安 Li An) known as Father knows better. Several topics are touched on to contextually place food as a polysemic articulating metaphor of social relations. Lee's cinema, at least that of these pages, is a defense of fugu (复古), literally the return to ancient customs and traditions. The conceptual support is cinetization, instrument of analysis of the films proposed with the aim of strengthening the research agenda of Asian cinema.