Taiwan new cinema at film festivals / Beth Tsai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsai, Beth, author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Taiwan.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 168 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Taiwan New Cinema (first wave, 1982-1989; second wave, 1990 onward) has a unique history regarding film festivals, particularly in the way these films are circulated at major European film festivals. It shares a common formalist concern about cinematic modernism with its Western counterparts, departing from previous modes of filmmaking that were preoccupied with nostalgically romanticizing China's image.<br><br>Through utilising in-depth case studies of films by Taiwan-based directors: Tsai Ming-liang, Zhao Deyin and Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai discusses how Taiwan New Cinema represents a struggling configuration of the 'nation', brought forth by Taiwan's multilayered colonial and postcolonial histories. <i>Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals</i> presents the conditions that have led to the production of a national cinema, branding the auteur, and examines shifting representations of cultural identity in the context of globalization.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I Historicising Taiwan New Cinema

CHAPTER 1 The Rise of Taiwan New Cinema and the Festival Strategy

CHAPTER 2 Women Critics and Building the Auteur

Part II Filmmakers in Focus

CHAPTER 3 Going East: Women Walk the City in Hou Hsiao-hsien's Le Voyage du ballon rouge (2007) and Café Lumière (2003)

CHAPTER 4 Going West: Tsai Ming-liang at the Louvre and Cinema in the Gallery

CHAPTER 5 A Southbound Turn: Dreaming Taiwan in Midi Z's Realist Films

CHAPTER 6 To the Future: Film Festivals as Producers and Sleeping in the Cinema

Postscript: An American Girl in Taiwan

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Nov 2023).

ISBN:

9781474496933

OCLC:

1417147550