Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island

by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231128988
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	07/06/2005
Series:	Film and Culture Series
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh is associate professor of cinema studies in the Department of Cinema-Television and associate director of the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. She is the author of Phantom of the Music: Song and Narration in Chinese-language Cinema and the coeditor of Chinese-Language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics.

Darrell William Davis is senior lecturer at the School of Theatre, Film, and Dance at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is the author of Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film.

Editorial Reviews

Extremely valuable.

Canadian Journal of Film Studies - Yu-Jyuan Jian

A most welcome arrival on the scene for Asian Cinema as a whole, and is a book long over due.

Film International - James Udden

This book is a highly intelligent and welcome guide to the movement as whole, and to some of its major participants.

Taipei times - Bradley Winterton

A fine first chapter on Taiwan's film industry.

Taipei Review - June Teufel Dreyer

a veritable jewel for those interested in Taiwanese film culture and its domestic and international evolution.

Film-Philosophy

Taiwan Film Directors provides a much-needed, comprehensive history ofTaiwan cinema.

The Journal of Asian Studies - Alexander C. Y. Huang