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

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wilson, Flannery (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
Series:Traditions in world cinema.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.