The Gaze of the Other: On Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds
Authors
Robin Chen-hsing Tsai
Tamkang University, Taipei
Abstract
"both [films] deal with caged 'egos' and the self-other relationship....the relationship between the eye and the gaze, like the relationship between self and other, is interactive, mutually implicated; they are contradictory, yet complementary."