Taiwan cinema as soft power : authorship, transnationality, historiography / Song Hwee Lim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lim, Song Hwee, 1965- author.

Contributor:

Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Taiwan--History--21st century.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--Taiwan--History--21st century.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

History.

Taiwan.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"This book seeks to understand cinema as a form of soft power tool. It proposes Taiwan as a prime example of cinema's effect in assisting a small nation gain prominence on the international stage. It maps Taiwan's cinematic output in the twenty-first century through the three keywords in the book's subtitle-authorship, transnationality, historiography. Its object of analysis is the legacy of Taiwan New Cinema, a movement that begun in the early 1980s that has had a lasting impact upon filmmakers and cinephiles worldwide for nearly forty years. By examining case studies that include Hou Hsiao-hsien, Ang Lee, and Tsai Ming-liang, this book suggests that authorship is central to Taiwan cinema's ability to transcend borders to the extent that the historiographical writing of Taiwan cinema has to be reimagined. It also looks at the scaling down of soft power from the global to the regional via a cultural imaginary called "little freshness", which describes films and cultural products from Taiwan that have become hugely popular in China and Hong Kong. In presenting Taiwan cinema's significance as a case of a small nation with enormous soft power, this book hopes to recast the terms and stakes of both cinema studies and soft power studies in academia"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Historiographical Turn: Documenting Taiwan New Cinema as Cross-Cultural Cinephilia

2. The Aural Turn: Hou Hsiao-hsien's Gendered and Material Voices

3. The Medial Turn: Tsai Ming-liangs Slow Walk to the Museum

4. The Industrial Turn: Ang Lee's Trans-Pacific Crossings as Cultural Brokerage

5. The Affective Turn: Little Freshness as Regional Soft Power.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Lim, Song Hwee. Taiwan cinema as soft power

ISBN:

9780197503379

0197503373

9780197503386

0197503381

OCLC:

1257576486

Publisher Number:

99989631444