edited by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis and Wenchi Lin
University of Michigan Press, 2022 Paper: 978-0-472-05546-3 | Cloth: 978-0-472-07546-1 | eISBN: 978-0-472-22039-7
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Thirty-two New Takes on Taiwan Cinema covers thirty-two films from Taiwan, addressing a flowering of new talent, moving from art film to genre pictures, and nonfiction. Beyond the conventional framework of privileging “New and Post-New Cinema,” or prominence of auteurs or single films, this volume is a comprehensive, judicious take on Taiwan cinema that fills gaps in the literature, offers a renewed historiography, and introduces new creative force and voices of Taiwan’s moving image culture to produce a leading and accessible work on Taiwan film and culture.
Film-by-film is conceived as the main carrier of moving picture imagery for a majority of viewers, across the world. The curation offers an array of formal, historical, genre, sexual, social, and political frames, which provide a rich brew of contexts. This surfeit of meanings is carried by individual films, one by one, which breaks down abstractions into narrative bites and outsized emotions.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh is Lam Wong Yiu Wah Chair Professor and Dean of Faculty of Arts at Lingnan University.
Darrell William Davis is Honorary Professor in the Visual Studies Department at Lingnan University.
Wenchi Lin is Professor of English and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at National Central University, Taiwan.
REVIEWS
“Thirty-two New Takes on Taiwan Cinema is a truly mammoth assembly of thought-provoking chapters written by some of the world’s leading experts on the subject. This book covers a broad range of auteurs, genres, styles, and themes to reflect the diversity of Taiwan’s cinematic output. It also seeks to expand the canon of critically lauded works by legendary filmmakers so that heretofore overlooked or misunderstood films, including those by up-and-coming artists working outside the industry, receive the attention that they deserve.”
—David Scott Diffrient, Colorado State University
— David Scott Diffrient
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
A Note on Transliteration and Translation
1. Curating Taiwan Cinema in the 21st Century Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis, and Wenchi Lin
2. Our Neighbors (1963): Historiography of Home and Emerging Realism in Post-1949 Taiwan Guo-juin Hong
3. The Best Secret Agent (1964): The First Female Spy Hero of Taiyu pian Chunchi Wang
4. The Bride Who Has Returned from Hell (1965): Cosmopolitan Vernacularism Ping-hui Liao
5. Hsi Shih: The Beauty of Beauties (1965): The Grand Mirage of Taiwanese Cinema James Udden
6. Dangerous Youth (1969): Bricolage in Taiwanese-language Films Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh
7. Home, Sweet Home (1970): Home Is Where One Belongs I-In Chiang
8. The Young Ones (1973): The Double Lives of a Cold War Wenyi Melodrama Zhen Zhang
9. Victory (1976): Symbolic Analysis of the Film in Three Parts James Wicks
10. Legend of the Mountain (1979): Rediscovering King Hu’s Land of Wayward Ghosts Michael Berry
11. Kuei-mei, A Woman (1985): Female Mobility and Modern Homemaking Tingwu Cho
12. Taipei Story (1985): Floundering in the City of Masonry and Glass Ling Zhang
13. Daughter of the Nile (1987): Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Dark Pop Experiment Jason McGrath
14. Strawman (1987): Black Comedy, Bromance, and Prosthetic Memory Corrado Neri
15. A Brighter Summer Day (1991): Taiwan Nocturne Darrell William Davis
16. Super Citizen Ko (1994): A Cartography of Memory and Oblivion Wafa Ghermani
17. Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996): Another Gangster Movie? Shiao-Ying Shen
18. Buddha Bless America (1996): Figures of Translation Nicole Huang
19. Tonight Nobody Goes Home (1996): Homecoming and Women’s Self-Awakening at a Time of Family and National Crisis Mei-Hsuan Chiang
20. Boys for Beauty (1999): Participatory Mode, Camp Aesthetic, Bentu Discourse Shi-Yan Chao
21. Three Times (2005): Hou Hsiao-hsien's Cinematic Poetics of Mise-en-song Wenchi Lin
22. God, Man, Dog (2007): Migrants in Glocalized Spaces Kate Chiwen Liu
23. Cape No.7 (2008): A Taiwan Structure of Feeling Chris Berry
24. Drifting Flowers (2008): Trans-reality and the Margins of the Shadow Helen Grace
25. Visage (2009): That Obscure Face of the Muses Beth Tsai
26. Monga (2010): Affect and Structure Earl Jackson
27. Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above (2013): The Most Influential Documentary Film Andy Birtwistle and Kuei-fen Chiu
28. Godspeed (2016): Memories, Transindividuation, and Becoming Taiwanese Victor Fan
29. True Emotion Behind the Wall (2017): Taste of Salty Chicken Darrell William Davis
30. The Bold, the Corrupt and the Beautiful (2017): Modernity, Chinese-ness and National Allegory Hsien-hao Liao
31. The Great Buddha+ (2017): Tracing the Limits of the Visible Carlos Rojas
32. Small Talk (2017): Critiquing Heteronormativity, Resisting Homonormativity Tze-lan Deborah Sang
33. On Happiness Road (2017): Taiwanese Images and Screen Memory in Coming-of-Age Animation Laura Jo-han Wen
Chinese Glossary
Bibliography
Filmography
Contributors
Index
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edited by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis and Wenchi Lin
University of Michigan Press, 2022 Paper: 978-0-472-05546-3 Cloth: 978-0-472-07546-1 eISBN: 978-0-472-22039-7
Thirty-two New Takes on Taiwan Cinema covers thirty-two films from Taiwan, addressing a flowering of new talent, moving from art film to genre pictures, and nonfiction. Beyond the conventional framework of privileging “New and Post-New Cinema,” or prominence of auteurs or single films, this volume is a comprehensive, judicious take on Taiwan cinema that fills gaps in the literature, offers a renewed historiography, and introduces new creative force and voices of Taiwan’s moving image culture to produce a leading and accessible work on Taiwan film and culture.
Film-by-film is conceived as the main carrier of moving picture imagery for a majority of viewers, across the world. The curation offers an array of formal, historical, genre, sexual, social, and political frames, which provide a rich brew of contexts. This surfeit of meanings is carried by individual films, one by one, which breaks down abstractions into narrative bites and outsized emotions.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh is Lam Wong Yiu Wah Chair Professor and Dean of Faculty of Arts at Lingnan University.
Darrell William Davis is Honorary Professor in the Visual Studies Department at Lingnan University.
Wenchi Lin is Professor of English and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at National Central University, Taiwan.
REVIEWS
“Thirty-two New Takes on Taiwan Cinema is a truly mammoth assembly of thought-provoking chapters written by some of the world’s leading experts on the subject. This book covers a broad range of auteurs, genres, styles, and themes to reflect the diversity of Taiwan’s cinematic output. It also seeks to expand the canon of critically lauded works by legendary filmmakers so that heretofore overlooked or misunderstood films, including those by up-and-coming artists working outside the industry, receive the attention that they deserve.”
—David Scott Diffrient, Colorado State University
— David Scott Diffrient
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
A Note on Transliteration and Translation
1. Curating Taiwan Cinema in the 21st Century Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis, and Wenchi Lin
2. Our Neighbors (1963): Historiography of Home and Emerging Realism in Post-1949 Taiwan Guo-juin Hong
3. The Best Secret Agent (1964): The First Female Spy Hero of Taiyu pian Chunchi Wang
4. The Bride Who Has Returned from Hell (1965): Cosmopolitan Vernacularism Ping-hui Liao
5. Hsi Shih: The Beauty of Beauties (1965): The Grand Mirage of Taiwanese Cinema James Udden
6. Dangerous Youth (1969): Bricolage in Taiwanese-language Films Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh
7. Home, Sweet Home (1970): Home Is Where One Belongs I-In Chiang
8. The Young Ones (1973): The Double Lives of a Cold War Wenyi Melodrama Zhen Zhang
9. Victory (1976): Symbolic Analysis of the Film in Three Parts James Wicks
10. Legend of the Mountain (1979): Rediscovering King Hu’s Land of Wayward Ghosts Michael Berry
11. Kuei-mei, A Woman (1985): Female Mobility and Modern Homemaking Tingwu Cho
12. Taipei Story (1985): Floundering in the City of Masonry and Glass Ling Zhang
13. Daughter of the Nile (1987): Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Dark Pop Experiment Jason McGrath
14. Strawman (1987): Black Comedy, Bromance, and Prosthetic Memory Corrado Neri
15. A Brighter Summer Day (1991): Taiwan Nocturne Darrell William Davis
16. Super Citizen Ko (1994): A Cartography of Memory and Oblivion Wafa Ghermani
17. Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996): Another Gangster Movie? Shiao-Ying Shen
18. Buddha Bless America (1996): Figures of Translation Nicole Huang
19. Tonight Nobody Goes Home (1996): Homecoming and Women’s Self-Awakening at a Time of Family and National Crisis Mei-Hsuan Chiang
20. Boys for Beauty (1999): Participatory Mode, Camp Aesthetic, Bentu Discourse Shi-Yan Chao
21. Three Times (2005): Hou Hsiao-hsien's Cinematic Poetics of Mise-en-song Wenchi Lin
22. God, Man, Dog (2007): Migrants in Glocalized Spaces Kate Chiwen Liu
23. Cape No.7 (2008): A Taiwan Structure of Feeling Chris Berry
24. Drifting Flowers (2008): Trans-reality and the Margins of the Shadow Helen Grace
25. Visage (2009): That Obscure Face of the Muses Beth Tsai
26. Monga (2010): Affect and Structure Earl Jackson
27. Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above (2013): The Most Influential Documentary Film Andy Birtwistle and Kuei-fen Chiu
28. Godspeed (2016): Memories, Transindividuation, and Becoming Taiwanese Victor Fan
29. True Emotion Behind the Wall (2017): Taste of Salty Chicken Darrell William Davis
30. The Bold, the Corrupt and the Beautiful (2017): Modernity, Chinese-ness and National Allegory Hsien-hao Liao
31. The Great Buddha+ (2017): Tracing the Limits of the Visible Carlos Rojas
32. Small Talk (2017): Critiquing Heteronormativity, Resisting Homonormativity Tze-lan Deborah Sang
33. On Happiness Road (2017): Taiwanese Images and Screen Memory in Coming-of-Age Animation Laura Jo-han Wen
Chinese Glossary
Bibliography
Filmography
Contributors
Index
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