Taiwan cinema : a contested nation on screen
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Taiwan cinema : a contested nation on screen
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
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Bibliography: p. [215]-221
Includes index
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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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Taiwan Cinema and the Historiography of Absence PART I: 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 PART II: 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
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