Taiwanese-language cinema : rediscovered and reconsidered / edited by Chris Berry [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berry, Chris, 1959 April 28- editor.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in East Asian film.

Edinburgh studies in East Asian film

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Taiwan--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Taiwanese-Language Cinema: Rediscovered and Reconsidered presents diverse approaches to the vibrant commercial film industry known as Taiwanese-language cinema (taiyupian). After a long period of neglect, films are being restored and made available with subtitles.<br><br>Taiwanese-language cinema was a cycle of over 1,000 dramatic feature films produced between the mid-50s and early 70s in the local Minnanhua Chinese language most commonly spoken on the island, also known as "Taiwanese" (taiyu). The rediscovery of Taiwanese-language cinema is stimulating new scholarship, both in Chinese in Taiwan and in other languages, which challenges our conventional understandings of Taiwanese film history and opens up new approaches to the films themselves.<br><br>This volume includes a mix of new English-language scholarship material with key essays by Taiwanese scholars newly translated from Chinese for the volume.

Contents:

Introduction

part I. Critical Intervention. 1. Don't Call Me 'Taiyupian' : Reflections on the Taiwanese Hokkien Cinema Era and Its Myths / Chih-heng Su

part II. Social Transformation. 2. Representations of Blindness in Taiyupian / Ta-wei Chi ; 3. From Stage to Screen : The Emergence of Taiwanese Opera Films in Social History / Ju-fan Shih ; 4. Taiyupian as Vernacular Modernism: Material Culture, Home Spaces and Taiwan as a Home / Adina Zemanek

part III. Industry and Aesthetics. 5. The Spirit of Yufeng: Lin Tuan-qiu's Film Career and the Hushan Film Studio / Wan-shun Shih ; 6. The Relationship between Actors and Industry in 1960s Taiwanese-Language Cinema / Hsin-chi Chen ; 7. Re-examining Vengeance of the Phoenix Sisters and Martial Arts Films: Genre Hybridity, Translocality and Cross-Nationality / Ru-shou Robert Chen ; 8. Musical Soundscapes in Taiyupian : Listening In on Composer Tseng Chung-ying and His Context / Nancy Guy ; 9. Sound Legacies : Post-synchronised Sound and Echoes of Taiyupian in Pre-Dolby Taiwan Cinema / Evelyn Shih

part IV. Transnational Dimensions. 10. Translation and Transformation of Taiyupian : From Gothic Romance to 'Family Complex' / Fang-mei Lin ; 11. Film Circulation and Mutual Influences between Hong Kong and Taiwan during the Cold War / Jessica Siu-yin Yeung.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jul 2026).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781399527910

1399527916

9781399527903

1399527908