Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Traditions in World Cinema
- Introduction
- 1 Charting the Course: Defining the Taiwanese Cinematic ‘Tradition’
- 2 Taiwanese–Italian Conjugations: The Fractured Storytelling of Edward Yang's The Terrorizers and Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up
- 3 Mapping Hou Hsiao-hsien's Visuality: Setting, Silence and the Incongruence of Translation in Flight of the Red Balloon
- 4 Tsai Ming-liang's Disjointed Connectivity and Lonely Intertextuality
- 5 The Chinese/Hollywood Aesthetic of Ang Lee: ‘Westernized’, Capitalist … and Box Office Gold
- 6 Filming Disappearance or Renewal? The Ever-Changing Representations of Taipei in Contemporary Taiwanese Cinema
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index
Traditions in World Cinema
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Traditions in World Cinema
- Introduction
- 1 Charting the Course: Defining the Taiwanese Cinematic ‘Tradition’
- 2 Taiwanese–Italian Conjugations: The Fractured Storytelling of Edward Yang's The Terrorizers and Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up
- 3 Mapping Hou Hsiao-hsien's Visuality: Setting, Silence and the Incongruence of Translation in Flight of the Red Balloon
- 4 Tsai Ming-liang's Disjointed Connectivity and Lonely Intertextuality
- 5 The Chinese/Hollywood Aesthetic of Ang Lee: ‘Westernized’, Capitalist … and Box Office Gold
- 6 Filming Disappearance or Renewal? The Ever-Changing Representations of Taipei in Contemporary Taiwanese Cinema
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index
Summary
General editors: Linda Badley and R. Barton Palmer
Founding editor: Steven Jay Schneider
Traditions in World Cinema is a series of textbooks and monographs devoted to the analysis of currently popular and previously underexamined or undervalued film movements from around the globe. Also intended for general-interest readers, the textbooks in this series offer undergraduate- and graduate-level film students accessible and comprehensive introductions to diverse traditions in world cinema. The monographs open up for advanced academic study more specialised groups of films, including those that require theoretically oriented approaches. Both textbooks and monographs provide thorough examinations of the industrial, cultural, and sociohistorical conditions of production and reception.
The flagship textbook for the series includes chapters by noted scholars on traditions of acknowledged importance (the French New Wave, German expressionism), recent and emergent traditions (New Iranian, post-Cinema Novo), and those whose rightful claim to recognition has yet to be established (the Israeli persecution film, global found-footage cinema). Other volumes concentrate on individual national, regional or global cinema traditions. As the introductory chapter to each volume makes clear, the films under discussion form a coherent group on the basis of substantive and relatively transparent, if not always obvious, commonalities. These commonalities may be formal, stylistic or thematic, and the groupings may, though they need not, be popularly identified as genres, cycles or movements (Japanese horror, Chinese martial arts cinema, Italian neo-realism).
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- New Taiwanese Cinema in FocusMoving Within and Beyond the Frame, pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2014