Taiwan Cinema, Memory, and Modernity

• Main Author: Chang, Ivy I-chu (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Motion pictures-Asia.; Ethnology-Asia.; Cultural studies.; Motion pictures.; Queer theory.; Asian Cinema and TV.; Asian Culture.; Cultural Studies.; Queer Studies.

This book investigates the aesthetics and politics of Post/Taiwan-New-Cinema by examining fifteen movies by six directors and frequent award winners in international film festivals. The book considers the works of such prominent directors as Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang and Chang Tsuo-chi and their...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Visible and the Invisible: Edward Yong's Taipei Trilogy
• The Ruin, Body, and Time-image in Tsai Ming-Liang's Films: The Wayward Cloud, What Time Is It There, and I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
• Colonial Reminiscence, Japanophilia Trend, and Taiwanese Grassroots Imagination in Cape No. 7
• Mourning Love: Queer Performativity and Transformation in Zero Chou's Spider Lilies and Splendid Float
• Aesthetics of Violence and Elegy for the Young: Chang Tsuo-chi's Gang Trilogy
• Repressed Memories and the Unhomely in Chung Mong-hong's Children Trilogy.