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Bertolucci's The Last Emperor: Multiple Takes. Edited by Bruce H. Sklarew, Bonnie S. Kaufman, Ellen Handler Spitz, and Diane Borden. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. 272 pp.
Interdisciplinary analysis often means bringing together an unusual range of subjects that are allowed to coexist, to be examined in one spectrum. The radical gesture consists primarily in breaking down barriers between the subjects of various disciplines rather than their methodologies. It is rare, then, to find an interdisciplinary study that focuses on a single object and examines it in depth from multiple points of view and with different methods. Bertolucci's The Last Emperor explores the possibility and validity of such a closely focused study. This collection...