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

Publication Info. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 195 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary This English-language anthology on Taiwan new cinema and its legacy covers all the major filmmakers from Hou Hsiao Hsien and Edward Yang to Ang Lee, bringing together a range of essays that analyze individual films produced since the advent of Taiwan new cinema in the early 1980s.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Motion pictures -- Taiwan -- History.
Motion pictures.
Taiwan.
History.
Chronological Term Geschichte
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Berry, Chris, 1959 April 28-
Lu, Feiyi.
In: HKU Press digital editions.
Other Form: Print version: Island on the edge. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2005 9789622097155 (DLC) 2006432891 (OCoLC)57354282
ISBN 9789882201880 (electronic book)
9882201881 (electronic book)
9622097154 (hardback)
9622097162 (paperback)
9789622097155 (hardback)
9789622097162 (paperback)