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OverviewCurating Taiwan Cinema: 32 New Takes covers thirty-two films from Taiwan, addressing a flowering of new talent, moving from art film to genre pictures, and nonfiction. Beyond the conventional framework of privileging “New and Post-New Cinema,” or prominence of auteurs or single films, this volume is a comprehensive, judicious take on Taiwan cinema that fills gaps in the literature, offers a renewed historiography, and introduces new creative force and voices of Taiwan’s moving image culture to produce a leading and accessible work on Taiwan film and culture. Film-by-film is conceived as the main carrier of moving picture imagery for a majority of viewers, across the world. The curation offers an array of formal, historical, genre, sexual, social, and political frames, which provide a rich brew of contexts. This surfeit of meanings is carried by individual films, one by one, which breaks down abstractions into narrative bites and outsized emotions. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh , Darrell William Davis , Wenchi LinPublisher: The University of Michigan Press Imprint: The University of Michigan Press Dimensions: Width: 14.90cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 22.60cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780472055463ISBN 10: 0472055461 Pages: 536 Publication Date: 30 November 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A Note on Transliteration and Translation 1. Curating Taiwan Cinema in the 21st Century Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis, and Wenchi Lin 2. Our Neighbors (1963): Historiography of Home and Emerging Realism in Post-1949 Taiwan Guo-juin Hong 3. The Best Secret Agent (1964): The First Female Spy Hero of Taiyu pian Chunchi Wang 4. The Bride Who Has Returned from Hell (1965): Cosmopolitan Vernacularism Ping-hui Liao 5. Hsi Shih: The Beauty of Beauties (1965): The Grand Mirage of Taiwanese Cinema James Udden 6. Dangerous Youth (1969): Bricolage in Taiwanese-language Films Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh 7. Home, Sweet Home (1970): Home Is Where One Belongs I-In Chiang 8. The Young Ones (1973): The Double Lives of a Cold War Wenyi Melodrama Zhen Zhang 9. Victory (1976): Symbolic Analysis of the Film in Three Parts James Wicks 10. Legend of the Mountain (1979): Rediscovering King Hu’s Land of Wayward Ghosts Michael Berry 11. Kuei-mei, A Woman (1985): Female Mobility and Modern Homemaking Tingwu Cho 12. Taipei Story (1985): Floundering in the City of Masonry and Glass Ling Zhang 13. Daughter of the Nile (1987): Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Dark Pop Experiment Jason McGrath 14. Strawman (1987): Black Comedy, Bromance, and Prosthetic Memory Corrado Neri 15. A Brighter Summer Day (1991): Taiwan Nocturne Darrell William Davis 16. Super Citizen Ko (1994): A Cartography of Memory and Oblivion Wafa Ghermani 17. Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996): Another Gangster Movie? Shiao-Ying Shen 18. Buddha Bless America (1996): Figures of Translation Nicole Huang 19. Tonight Nobody Goes Home (1996): Homecoming and Women’s Self-Awakening at a Time of Family and National Crisis Mei-Hsuan Chiang 20. Boys for Beauty (1999): Participatory Mode, Camp Aesthetic, Bentu Discourse Shi-Yan Chao 21. Three Times (2005): Hou Hsiao-hsien's Cinematic Poetics of Mise-en-song Wenchi Lin 22. God, Man, Dog (2007): Migrants in Glocalized Spaces Kate Chiwen Liu 23. Cape No.7 (2008): A Taiwan Structure of Feeling Chris Berry 24. Drifting Flowers (2008): Trans-reality and the Margins of the Shadow Helen Grace 25. Visage (2009): That Obscure Face of the Muses Beth Tsai 26. Monga (2010): Affect and Structure Earl Jackson 27. Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above (2013): The Most Influential Documentary Film Andy Birtwistle and Kuei-fen Chiu 28. Godspeed (2016): Memories, Transindividuation, and Becoming Taiwanese Victor Fan 29. True Emotion Behind the Wall (2017): Taste of Salty Chicken Darrell William Davis 30. The Bold, the Corrupt and the Beautiful (2017): Modernity, Chinese-ness and National Allegory Hsien-hao Liao 31. The Great Buddha+ (2017): Tracing the Limits of the Visible Carlos Rojas 32. Small Talk (2017): Critiquing Heteronormativity, Resisting Homonormativity Tze-lan Deborah Sang 33. On Happiness Road (2017): Taiwanese Images and Screen Memory in Coming-of-Age Animation Laura Jo-han Wen Chinese Glossary Bibliography Filmography Contributors IndexReviews"""Beyond the book's educational value, I believe that the editors and authors of this book successfully arouse readers' curiosity about the details of Taiwanese society, history, and its struggles, through thoughtful analysis of these films. . . . This book is thus more than a book on Taiwanese film: it curates Taiwan's history and struggles through the cinematic lens.""--Julie Yu-Wen Chen, Asian Studies Review ""The book's value is in its breadth: the editors have brought together scholars in media studies, cultural studies, and especially Taiwan film studies...With its presentation of diverse film texts and the creative endeavors behind them, the book will undoubtedly inspire more research on and interest in the films coming out of Taiwan."" --Studies on Asia ""32 New Takes on Taiwan Cinema marks an exciting advancement in the (English-language) scholarship on Taiwan cinema, presenting informative background information, thematic groupings, historical contextualizations, and accessible film interpretations that will be of interest to scholars, students, and general readers.""--Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley, Modern Chinese Literature & Culture ""All in all, Thirty-two New Takes on Taiwan Cinema is a book that many cinephiles and scholars of Taiwan cinema have eagerly anticipated. I am confident that it will be invaluable to researchers and educators in the fields of Taiwan studies and cinema studies. By delving into the representative films studied in this anthology, readers should gain a profound understanding of the trajectory of Taiwan's sociopolitical transition over the past 70 years and its corresponding impact on the development of its cinema.""--Daw-Ming Lee, International Journal of Asian Studies" """32 New Takes on Taiwan Cinema marks an exciting advancement in the (English-language) scholarship on Taiwan cinema, presenting informative background information, thematic groupings, historical contextualizations, and accessible film interpretations that will be of interest to scholars, students, and general readers."" --Modern Chinese Literature Culture--Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley ""Modern Chinese Literature & Culture"" (6/1/2023 12:00:00 AM) ""All in all, Thirty-two New Takes on Taiwan Cinema is a book that many cinephiles and scholars of Taiwan cinema have eagerly anticipated. I am confident that it will be invaluable to researchers and educators in the fields of Taiwan studies and cinema studies. By delving into the representative films studied in this anthology, readers should gain a profound understanding of the trajectory of Taiwan's sociopolitical transition over the past 70 years and its corresponding impact on the development of its cinema.""--Daw-Ming Lee ""International Journal of Asian Studies"" ""Beyond the book's educational value, I believe that the editors and authors of this book successfully arouse readers' curiosity about the details of Taiwanese society, history, and its struggles, through thoughtful analysis of these films. . . . This book is thus more than a book on Taiwanese film: it curates Taiwan's history and struggles through the cinematic lens."" --Asian Studies Review--Julie Yu-Wen Chen ""Asian Studies Review""" Author InformationEmilie Yueh-yu Yeh is Lam Wong Yiu Wah Chair Professor and Dean of Faculty of Arts at Lingnan University. Darrell William Davis is Honorary Professor in the Visual Studies Department at Lingnan University. Wenchi Lin is Professor of English and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at National Central University, Taiwan. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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