The last isle : contemporary film, culture and trauma in global Taiwan /

Explores the affective toll of Taiwan's geographical and political proximity to China through a critical analysis of contemporary Taiwanese film and culture. It examines the complex, precarious relationship between the sovereign state of Taiwan and China in order to consider what this might mea...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ma, Sheng-mei
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Rowman and Littlefield International, [2015]
Series:Place, memory, affect.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Taiwan > History.
Motion pictures > Political aspects > Taiwan.
Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
Cinéma > Taiwan > Histoire.
Traumatisme psychique au cinéma.
Cinéma > Aspect politique > Taiwan.
Literary Criticism: Asian > Chinese.
Political Science: Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
Social Science: Human Geography.
Social Science: Emigration & Immigration.
Literary Collections: Asian > General.
Motion pictures
Motion pictures > Political aspects
Psychic trauma in motion pictures
Taiwan
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Trauma and Taiwan's melodrama: Seven orphans of Cape numbers 7
  • Island's irony: virtual pilgrimage circum-Taiwan in Search of the high Cs
  • Mazu's touch, Taiwan nezha, and crying
  • Globalization's bottom: subtitle and switch in Wang Yu-Lin's Taiwanese dialect films
  • Wet umbrella from Asian film to the White snake
  • Hyde-and-seek in Asian diaspora: Deann Borshay Liem's Negative and Ang Lee's Ventriloquy
  • Sold mountain: Chinese-language films on Shangri-la
  • Nestle in Shalu
  • Taiwan's English education: A fish with three heads
  • The fate of accidental Taiwanese: 5 ways to leave your father
  • Coda: China laying golden eggs.

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