Taiwan Cinema A Contested Nation on Screen

A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, this is the first English language book that covers its entire history. Hong revises how Taiwan cinema is taught and studied by taking into account not only theauteursof New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of popular genre films before the 1980s. This work will be essential reading for students and scholars of Taiwan and Chinese-language cinemas and of great value to those interested in the larger context of East Asian cultural history as well as film and visual studies in general.

Guo-Juin Hong is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at Duke University. He has published articles on such topics as early Shanghai cinema, new Taiwan cinema, documentary film, and queer visual culture. His essay on colonial modernity in 1930s Shanghai was the winner of the 2009 Katherine Kovacs Essay Award, Honorable Mention, and his dissertation received the 2005 Dissertation of the Year Award, Honorable Mention, both by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Hong teaches film theory and historiography, Chinese-language cinemas, melodrama, documentary, and visual culture.

Introduction: Taiwan Cinema and the Historiography of Absence * PART I: GENRES * Colonial Archives, Postcolonial Archaeology: Pre-1945 Taiwan and the Hybrid Texts of Cinema before Nation * Cinema among Genres: An Unorthodox History of Taiwan’s Dialect Cinema, 1955-1970 * Tracing a Journeyman’s Electric Shadow: Healthy Realism, Cultural Policies, and Lee Hsing, 1964-1980 * Interlude: Hou Hsiao-Hsien before Hou Hsiao-Hsien: Film Aesthetics in Transition, 1980-1982 * PART II: STYLE * A Time to Live, a Time to Die: New Taiwan Cinema and Its Vicissitudes, 1982-1986 * Island of No Return: Cinematic Narration as Retrospection in Wang Tong’s Taiwan Trilogy and Beyond * Anywhere But Here: The Postcolonial City in Tsai Ming-Liang’s Taipei Trilogy * Afterword: Cinema after Nation

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