New Taiwanese cinema in focus : moving within and beyond the frame

New Taiwanese cinema in focus : moving within and beyond the frame / Flannery Wilson.

In the Taiwanese film industry, the dichotomy between 'art-house' and commercially viable films is heavily emphasized. However, since the democratization of the political landscape in Taiwan, Taiwanese cinema has become internationally fluid. As the case studies in this book demonstrate, f...

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Main Author: Wilson, Flannery (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
Series:Traditions in world cinema.
Subjects:
1900-2099
Motion pictures > Taiwan > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures > Taiwan > History > 21st century.
Media studies.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
Motion pictures
Film
Taiwan
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Charting the course: defining the Taiwanese cinematic 'tradition'
  • Taiwanese-Italian conjugations: the fractured storytelling of Edward Yang's The Terrorizers and Michaelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up
  • Mapping Hou Hsiao-hsien's visuality: setting, silence and the incongruence of translation in Flight of the Red Balloon
  • Tsai Ming-liang's disjointed connectivity and lonely intertexuality
  • The Chinese/Hollywood aesthetic of Ang Lee: 'Westernized', capitalist ... and box office gold
  • Filming disappearance or renewal? The ever-changing representations of Taipei in contemporary Taiwanese cinema
  • Conclusion.

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