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Title Island on the edge : Taiwan new cinema and after / edited by Chris Berry and Feii Lu
Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 195 pages) : illustrations
Contents The Terrorizer and the great divide in contemporary Taiwan's cultural development / Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang -- Reflections on the screen : Hou Hsiao Hsien's Dust in the Wind and the rhythms of the Taiwan new cinema / Haden Guest -- A Borrowed Life in Banana Paradise : de-Cold War/decolonization, or modernity and its tears / Chen Kuan-Hsing -- Hou Hsiao Hsien's City of Sadness : history and the dialogic female voice / Rosemary Haddon -- Myth(ology) mythologizing its own closure : Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day / Liu Yu-hsiu -- Hou Hsiao Hsien's The Puppetmaster : the poetics of landscape / Nick Browne -- Where is the love? : hyperbolic realism and indulgence in Vive L'Amour / Chris Berry -- Generational/cultural contradiction and global incorporation : Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman / Ti Wei -- On Tsai Mingliang's The River / Gina Marchetti -- Compulsory orientalism : Hou Hsiao Hsien's Flowers of Shanghai / Nick Kaldis -- Another cinema : Darkness & Light / Feii Lu -- China simulacrum : genre, feminism, and Pan-Chinese cultural politics in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / Fran Martin
Summary This English-language anthology on Taiwan new cinema and its legacy covers all the major filmmakers from Hou Hsiao Hsien and Edward Yang to Ang Lee, bringing together a range of essays that analyze individual films produced since the advent of Taiwan new cinema in the early 1980s
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Motion pictures -- Taiwan -- History
Motion picture producers and directors -- Taiwan
ART -- Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Motion picture producers and directors
Motion pictures
Film
Taiwan
Taiwan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Berry, Chris, 1959 April 28-
Lu, Feiyi.
LC no. 2006432891
ISBN 9789882201880
9882201881