Taiwan cinema
Subtitle: a contested nation on screen
By: Guo-Juin Hong
Edition: 1st Palgrave Macmillan pbk. ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781137290090
Subjects: Motion pictures
Notes: "First published in hardcover in 2011"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-225) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Taiwan cinema and the historiography of absence; title: Genres. colonial archives, postcolonial archaeology : pre-1945 Taiwan and the hybrid texts of cinema before nation; title: Cinema among genres : an unorthodox history of Taiwan's dialect cinema, 1955-1970; title: Tracing a journeyman's electric shadow : healthy realism, cultural policies, and Lee Hsing, 1964-1980; title: Interlude : Hou Hsiao-Hsien before Hou Hsiao-Hsien : film aesthetics in transition, 1980-1982; title: Style. A time to live, a time to die : new Taiwan cinema and its vicissitudes, 1982-1986; title: Island of no return : cinematic narration as retrospection in Wang Tong's Taiwan trilogy and beyond; title: Anywhere but here : the postcolonial city in Tsai Ming-Liang's Taipei trilogy; title: Afterword : cinema after nation.