Island on the edge Taiwan new cinema and after

Berry, Chris, 1959- (Added Author). Lu, Feiyi. (Added Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9789622097162 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9789622097155 (hbk.)
ISBN: 9622097162 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9622097154 (hbk.)
ISBN: 9882201881 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9789882201880 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 195 p.) : ill.
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Publisher: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User. Multi-User OldControl:muse9789882201880
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
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Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.