Taiwan Film Directors

Taiwan Film Directors

A Treasure Island

By Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh and Darrell William Davis
Hardcover $110.00 Paperback $34.00

$110.00

Publication Date: 6th July 2005

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... Read More
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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... Read More
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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.
Details
  • Price: $110.00
  • Pages: 312
  • Carton Quantity: 26
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Imprint: Columbia University Press
  • Series: Film and Culture Series
  • Publication Date: 6th July 2005
  • Trim Size: 6.5 x 8.5 in
  • ISBN: 9780231128988
  • Format: Hardcover
  • BISACs:
    PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General
    HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia
Reviews
a veritable jewel for those interested in Taiwanese film culture and its domestic and international evolution.
- Film-Philosophy
A fine first chapter on Taiwan's film industry.
- June Teufel Dreyer, Taipei Review
This book is a highly intelligent and welcome guide to the movement as whole, and to some of its major participants.
- Bradley Winterton, Taipei times
Taiwan Film Directors provides a much-needed, comprehensive history ofTaiwan cinema.
- Alexander C. Y. Huang, The Journal of Asian Studies
Extremely valuable.
- Yu-Jyuan Jian, Canadian Journal of Film Studies
A most welcome arrival on the scene for Asian Cinema as a whole, and is a book long over due.
- James Udden, Film International
Author Bio

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.

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.
  • Price: $110.00
  • Pages: 312
  • Carton Quantity: 26
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Imprint: Columbia University Press
  • Series: Film and Culture Series
  • Publication Date: 6th July 2005
  • Trim Size: 6.5 x 8.5 in
  • ISBN: 9780231128988
  • Format: Hardcover
  • BISACs:
    PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General
    HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia
a veritable jewel for those interested in Taiwanese film culture and its domestic and international evolution.
– Film-Philosophy
A fine first chapter on Taiwan's film industry.
– June Teufel Dreyer, Taipei Review
This book is a highly intelligent and welcome guide to the movement as whole, and to some of its major participants.
– Bradley Winterton, Taipei times
Taiwan Film Directors provides a much-needed, comprehensive history ofTaiwan cinema.
– Alexander C. Y. Huang, The Journal of Asian Studies
Extremely valuable.
– Yu-Jyuan Jian, Canadian Journal of Film Studies
A most welcome arrival on the scene for Asian Cinema as a whole, and is a book long over due.
– James Udden, Film International

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.