Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island (Film and Culture Series)

Focusing on the work of four contemporary filmmakers―Ang Lee, Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang―the authors explore how these filmmakers broke from tradition, creating a cinema that is both personal and insistent on examining Taiwan's complex history. Featuring stills, anecdotes, and close readings of films, the authors consider the influence of Hong Kong and martial arts films, directors' experiments with autobiography, the shifting fortunes of the Taiwanese film industry, and Taiwan cinema in the context of international cinema's aesthetics and business practices.

Humor & Entertainment

Davis, Darrell William

Yeh, Emilie Yueh-yu

Movies

Columbia University Press

Focusing on the work of four contemporary filmmakers―Ang Lee, Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang―the authors explore how these filmmakers broke from tradition, creating a cinema that is both personal and insistent on examining Taiwan's complex history. Featuring stills, anecdotes, and close readings of films, the authors consider the influence of Hong Kong and martial arts films, directors' experiments with autobiography, the shifting fortunes of the Taiwanese film industry, and Taiwan cinema in the context of international cinema's aesthetics and business practices.

In Staging Memories, authors Abé Mark Nornes and Emilie Yeh present an updated study of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s landmark contributions to Taiwanese and world cinema, with particular emphasis on A City of Sadness (Beiqing Chengshi), the winner of the Golden Lion award at the 1989 Venice Film Festival. Staging Memories is based on Narrating National Sadness, one of the first hypertext analyses in film studies, and its analysis is couched in a general history of Taiwan, the political massacre that A City of Sadness recreates, and the history of Taiwan New Cinema. This background information is crucial context for viewers, and one of the reasons teachers have long valued the hypertext version of the book. The body of the text analyzes Hou's style, representation of violence, and the complex manner in which he renders history in his oblique long-take style. The book ends with a chapter that examines a single sequence that unifies the various threads of the overall analysis.

Staging Memories: Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness

Politics & Social Sciences

Nornes, Abé Markus Markus

Social Sciences

Maize Books

East Asian Screen Industries is a guide to the film industries of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the PRC. The authors examine how local production has responded to global trends and explore the effects of widespread de-regulation and China's accession to the World Trade Organisation.  

East Asian Screen Industries (International Screen Industries)

Arts & Photography

Davis, Darrell

History & Criticism

British Film Institute

East Asian Screen Industries is a guide to the film industries of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the PRC. The authors examine how local production has responded to global trends and explore the effects of widespread de-regulation and China's accession to the World Trade Organisation.

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Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island (Film and Culture Series)

Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island (Film and Culture Series)

Staging Memories: Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness

East Asian Screen Industries (International Screen Industries)

East Asian Screen Industries (International Screen Industries)