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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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