The Philosophy of Ang Lee

Index

299 Index Academy Awards, 80; and Ang Lee, 1, 2 acosmotic philosophies. See under Confucianism; Daoism ACT UP, 217 African Americans: as Confederate soldiers, 287n30 AIDS, 217–18 aisthēsis, 153 anti-Semitism, 220 Aristotle, 54, 146–47, 148, 174n2, 235 auteur theory, 4 biblical themes, 111, 165 Brokeback Mountain, 5–6, 9–12, 35, 64–66, 69, 71, 74, 77–81, 86–92, 109–17, 180–81, 185–89, 214–15, 216–17, 218–19, 221–22 Buddhism, 13, 11, 19, 37, 165, 226–27, 254, 256, 259 bushwhackers (pro-Confederate guerrillas), 13, 265–76, 280–81, 284n6, 286n28 Chef Chu (Eat Drink Man Woman character), 122, 124–25, 128–30, 135–36, 139 chéng (completion), 128 chéng (creativity), 27 chi, 15 Civil War, 207, 265–67, 268, 275, 283, 287n28, 288n30 cogito, 244, 250 Confucianism, 1, 6–7, 8–12, 19–28, 31–37, 44–47, 49–50, 56–60, 65–69, 73–75, 91, 121, 126, 129, 141–43, 147–49, 158; as an acosmotic philosophy, 20. See also Mencius; neo-Confucianism; Xunzi Confucius, 6–7, 19, 20–21, 23–24, 27–28, 36, 38n24, 67–68, 74, 93n10, 122–23, 130 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 8, 9–10, 19–20, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31–37, 41–47, 49–51, 55–61, 62n15, 65, 71–73, 75, 177, 181–83 dào, 7, 20–24, 28, 31–32, 50, 126, 128, 140, 256 Daoism, 7–10, 19–23, 27–33, 47, 49–51, 56–58, 91, 162n21, 256; as an acosmotic philosophy, 20, 22 dasein, 178 dé, 27, 28, 33, 126 deontology, 144, 148 Earthlight Players (Taking Woodstock), 203, 227 Eastern philosophy: archetypes, 10; and East–West dialectic, 7, 84; and gender theory, 82–84; and social interconnectivity, 65–66. See also Western philosophy Eat Drink Man Woman, 7, 11, 121– 22, 124–25, 127, 128–30, 135–39, 147–49 300 Index Elliot Tiber (Taking Woodstock character), 193–94, 195–97, 199– 200, 201–2, 203–4, 211–13, 214, 219–27 Fantastic Four, 174n3, 230–31, 239, 245, 247, 251, 255, 257, 259 Father Knows Best trilogy, 6, 141, 145, 148–49, 217 fellow feeling, 237, 240 focus–field model: 122–23, 125–26, 129; relationships within, 21–22, 27–28; self, notion of, 6, 15, 20–21, 25, 27, 29–30 Foucault, Michel, 180, 186 gender, 45, 46, 60–61, 63n29, 82, 85, 87, 99–102, 108, 109–11, 116–17, 175n8, 181–82, 211, Giang Hu (Jiānghú), 42, 45–46, 56–57, 57–58, 65; lifestyle, 46, 65, 71–73; moral code, 25–26, 34, 46, 56 god (concept), 244, 249 God (Judeo-Christian deity), 167–68, 174, 174n3, 175nn8–9, 259 Gothic motifs, 95, 97, 101, 104 Green Destiny (sword), 23, 25, 28, 32, 42–43, 55–59, 71–72, 181, 190 Heidegger, Martin, 178–79, 184, 260–63 Hulk (character), 12, 165–74, 175n16, 183–85, 194–95, 197–203, 204–8 Hulk (film), 12, 165–74, 180, 183–85, 189, 190nn15–16, 193–95, 197– 203, 204–7; as psychodrama, 170, 190n15 hypermasculinity, 197, 198, 201 Ice Storm, The, 11, 13, 230–36, 240–41, 243–46, 250–63 interconnection/interdependence, 5–6, 7, 21, 25, 27–29, 31, 65, 67, 73, 79, 87, 256 interpersonal relationships, 13, 29, 71, 74–75, 121, 125, 240 jayhawkers (pro-Union guerrillas), 265–67, 285n6 judo, 7, 32 jujitsu, 7, 32 jūnzĭ, 6, 24, 27 Kant, Immanuel, 48–49, 84, 144, 146, 148 karma, 226, 227 Kierkegaard, Søren, 5, 178–79, 259 knight-errantry, 33, 46, 56 Künstlerroman, 215 Laozi, 19, 20, 28, 36 Lee, Ang: family history, 268–68; as filmmaker, 1–5, 10, 14, 179, 266– 67. See also names of individual films LGBT political issues (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender political issues), 210, 212, 215–19, 224–25 lĭ, 6–7, 25–26, 31, 44–45, 56–58, 61, 74, 76n4, 83, 84, 87, 142–43 Lust, Caution, 11, 151–60, 162n24, 221 Machiavelli, Niccolò, 265, 277–81, 284 mah-jongg, 153, 157 Master Chu (Pushing Hands), 7–8, 11, 143, 145, 147–48 Mencius, 68, 82–85, 86–87, 90–92, 93n2, 122, 130–32, 134 Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 11, 152, 155– 56, 160, 161n13 military-industrial complex, 184 Index 301 neo-Confucianism, 152, 162n19 New York City, 143 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 3, 75, 259 no-thing-ness, 244–45, 249. See...