The Ethics of Witness Dailiness and History in Hou Hsiao-hsien's Films /

• Main Author: Cai, Xiao (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Cultural studies.; Communication.; Sociology.; Cultural Studies.; Media Research.

This book explores the aesthetic and ethical ways in which history and daily life are filmically represented and witnessed in Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's movies. From the era of the Japanese Occupation to the White Horror and then to the lifting of martial law, the author shows how Hou...

Table of Contents:

• Hou Hsiao-hsien: Films and Reading
• A Poetics of Time: the Representation of Daily Life
• Remapping Taiwan: Space as a Time Monument
• The Poetics of Memory and Mourning
• The Poetics of the Ordinary in Representation of History.