Island on the edge : Taiwan new cinema and after / edited by Chris Berry and Feii Lu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berry, Chris, 1959 April 28-

Lu, Feiyi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Taiwan--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first English-language anthology on the Taiwan New Cinema and its legacy, this exciting collection covers all the major filmmakers from Hou Hsiao Hsien and Edward Yang to Tsai Mingliang and more.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-190) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-70463-X

9786612704635

988-220-188-1

OCLC:

654834912