Taiwan Film Directors A Treasure Island

Name: Taiwan Film Directors A Treasure Island
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ISBN: 9780231128988

ISBN-10: 0231128983

ISBN-13: 9780231128988

Edition: 2005

Authors: Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis, Darrell Davis

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This well-illustrated, in-depth study of the most celebrated directors and films from Taiwan and the development of Taiwanese film focuses on the extraordinarily rich 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 to create a cinema that is both personal and insistent on examining Taiwan's complex history. Following the relaxation of government control of the film industry in the 1980s, Taiwan's directors sprung from relative obscurity to international acclaim. Yeh and Davis trace this development, analyzing Taiwanese film from the end of World War II to the present. Featuring…

Book details

List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 7/6/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 0.68" wide x 0.88" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Introduction : treasure island



Parallel cinemas : postwar history and major directors



Challenges and controversies of the Taiwan new cinema



Navigating the house of Yang



Trisecting Taiwan cinema with Hou Hsiao-hsien



Confucianizing Hollywood : films of Ang Lee



Camping out with Tsai Ming-liang


Postscript : tracking loose ends