Taiwan cinema
Subtitle: a contested nation on screen
By: Guo-Juin Hong
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780230111622
Subjects: Motion pictures
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-221) 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.