The last isle : contemporary film, culture and trauma in global Taiwan / Sheng-mei Ma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ma, Sheng-mei.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Place, memory, affect.

Place, Memory, Affect

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Political aspects.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Taiwan--History.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--Taiwan.

Taiwan.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2015.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Rowman and Littlefield International, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>Explores the affective toll of Taiwan's geographical and political proximity to China through a critical analysis of contemporary Taiwanese film and culture. It examines the complex, precarious relationship between the sovereign state of Taiwan and China in order to consider what this might mean global anxiety around the growing power of China. </span></span>

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One: Trauma and Taiwan's Melodrama; Chapter Two: Island's Irony; Chapter Three: Mazu's Touch, Taiwan Nezha and Crying; Chapter Four: Globalization's Bottom; Chapter Five: Wet Umbrella from Asian Film to The White Snake; Chapter Six: Hyde-and-Seek in Asian Diaspora; Chapter Seven: Sold Mountain; Chapter Eight: Nestlé in Shalu; Chapter Nine: Taiwan's English Education; Chapter Ten: The Fate of Accidental Taiwanese; Coda; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

979-88-8183-082-3

1-78348-340-7

OCLC:

1062275319