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Pema Tseden’s The Search: The Making of a Minor Cinema

par Frangville, Vanessa
Référence Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 10, 2, page (106-119)
Publication Publié, 2016

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This paper uses Deleuze and Guattari's concept of ‘minor’ to examine Pema Tseden's second full-length feature film, The Search. Expanding on Deleuze's definition of minor cinema, this paper shows how The Search, through various strategies and narrative devices, deconstructs the myth of a pre-existing Tibetan people, and builds upon individual and fragmented narratives to create a new collective subjectivity, thus opening the way for a new understanding of Tibet. This case study demonstrates how Pema Tseden's in-between position (between languages, cultures and geographical areas) permits him to develop a cinema that gives space for Tibetans to become, giving the viewer a rare insight into contemporary Tibet.