Taiwan Cinema [electronic resource] : A Contested Nation on Screen /
Hong, G.author.
A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of popular genre films before the 1980s. The book is essential for students and scholars of Taiwan, film and visual studies, and East Asian cultural history.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Taiwan cinema and the historiography of absence -- Genres. colonial archives, postcolonial archaeology : pre-1945 Taiwan and the hybrid texts of cinema before nation -- Cinema among genres : an unorthodox history of Taiwan's dialect cinema, 1955-1970 -- Tracing a journeyman's electric shadow : healthy realism, cultural policies, and Lee Hsing, 1964-1980 -- Interlude : Hou Hsiao-Hsien before Hou Hsiao-Hsien : film aesthetics in transition, 1980-1982 -- Style. A time to live, a time to die : new Taiwan cinema and its vicissitudes, 1982-1986 -- Island of no return : cinematic narration as retrospection in Wang Tong's Taiwan trilogy and beyond -- Anywhere but here : the postcolonial city in Tsai Ming-Liang's Taipei trilogy -- Afterword : cinema after nation.
A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of popular genre films before the 1980s. The book is essential for students and scholars of Taiwan, film and visual studies, and East Asian cultural history.
Civilization—History.
Ethnology—Asia.
Motion pictures and television.
Oriental literature.
Languages.
Language and languages.
Motion pictures—History.
Cultural History.
Asian Culture.
Screen Studies.
Asian Literature.
Asian Languages.
Film History.