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Film production and consumption in contemporary Taiwan : cinema as a sensory circuit / Ya-Feng Mon.

Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.T28 M66 2016
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Mon, Ya-Feng, author.
Series:
Asian visual cultures ; 1.
Asian visual cultures ; 1
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Motion pictures--Taiwan.
Motion pictures.
Taiwan.
Physical Description:
214 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2016]
Contents:
1 Through the Nexus of Bodies and Things 11
Introduction
The Revival of an Industry 12
A Genre Innovation 15
Corporeal Appreciation 21
(Re)configuration of Bodies and Things 25
A Volatile Non-oppositional Relation 31
The Way Out of Control 35
2 Mediated Knowledge 39
Methodology
Enticement via Formulaity 39
How Objects Matter 43
Internet-Generated Network 47
The Industry-Audience Relationship 51
Artefactual Intervention 54
Joint Authorship 58
Mediation in Knowledge Production 65
3 Bodily Fantasy 67
Embodied Spectatorship and Object Intervention
Governance via Cinema 69
Identificatory or Existential? 73
The Cinematographic Machine Inside 75
The Surface Politics of the Body 78
A Network of Intermediary Vehicles 81
Volatile Connections to a Movie 86
The Fruits of a Collective Agency 90
Bodily Fantasy 92
4 Sensory Linkage 97
The Politics of Genre Film Making
Genre, the Existing Theories 101
Genre, the Fruit of Bodily Mediation 105
Realism in Aesthetic Intervention 110
The Enterprise of Homage 114
Sensorimotor Communication 118
The Transmission of a Modified Language 122
Creative Despite Imitation 124
Sensory Linkage 128
5 Intimacy 131
Internet Marketing as Collaborative Production
Miao Miao, the Official Blog 136
The Sensation of Closeness 141
Bodily Virtuality 144
Acts of Acknowledgement 147
The Extra Episodes 151
Q&A's Virtual Doubles 157
Collaboration on Production 161
6 Indeterminacy 165
Control and the (Un)productive Body
Participatory Productivity 167
Soft Control 172
Statistical Control 179
Archival Control 185
Revolutionary Control 192
7 Mediation and Connections in a Precarious Age 199
Conclusion
Precariousness in Prosperity 200
The Optimal Mediation 202.
Notes:
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.), Goldsmiths, University of London, 2014.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-210) and index.
ISBN:
9089648887
9789089648884
OCLC:
944087197

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