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Author : Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780472075461
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Thirty-Two New Takes on Taiwan Cinema written by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A film-by-film introduction to Taiwan cinema and cultures
Author : Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047222039X
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)
Download or read book Thirty-two New Takes on Taiwan Cinema written by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231128988
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Taiwan Film Directors written by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2003 marked the fiftieth anniversary of James Watson's and Francis Crick's discovery of the structure of DNA, which began a revolution in the biological sciences and radically altered the way humans view life and themselves. In this poetic account Erwin Fleissner, an eminent cancer researcher and teacher, offers a personal and professional reflection on the most significant developments in molecular genetics and cell biology over the past fifty years. Vital Harmonies is a sweeping look at these crucial scientific advances and an insider's perspective on what scientists have actually learned from them. Contrasting the humanistic side of scientific research with more deterministic or "mechanical" explanations of life processes, Fleissner discusses everything from natural selection to the tradition of rational inquiry stemming from the Enlightenment. He goes on to describe the structures of macromolecules and their "organizing" principles as well as cancer genes, stem cells, and the Human Genome Project. He also explores neuronal cells and the emergence of consciousness and how biological evolution is the foundation of our personal reality as well as our global responsibility. Fleissner asserts that scientific investigations cannot negate our essential "humanness" nor should the public fear them. Taking an optimistic perspective, he argues that a deeper knowledge of ourselves as biological entities will provide us, ultimately, with greater health, serenity, and self-knowledge. Vital Harmonies gives readers, whatever their background, an engaging analysis of some of the most important questions facing humanity today.
Author : Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472123440
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China written by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground cinema’s relationship with imperialism and colonialism and emphasize the rapid development of cinema as a sociocultural institution. These essays examine where films were screened; how cinema-going as a social activity adapted from and integrated with existing social norms and practices; the extent to which Cantonese opera and other regional performance traditions were models for the development of cinematic conventions; the role foreign films played in the development of cinema as an industry in the Republican era; and much more.
Author : Flannery Wilson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748682023
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book New Taiwanese Cinema in Focus written by Flannery Wilson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Taiwanese Cinema in Focus therefore presents the Taiwanese New Wave and Second Wave movements with an emphasis on intertextuality, citation and trans-cultural dialogue.
Author : Aswin Punathambekar
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472131400
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Global Digital Cultures written by Aswin Punathambekar and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital media histories are part of a global network, and South Asia is a key nexus in shaping the trajectory of digital media in the twenty-first century. Digital platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, and others are deeply embedded in the daily lives of millions of people around the world, shaping how people engage with others as kin, as citizens, and as consumers. Moving away from Anglo-American and strictly national frameworks, the essays in this book explore the intersections of local, national, regional, and global forces that shape contemporary digital culture(s) in regions like South Asia: the rise of digital and mobile media technologies, the ongoing transformation of established media industries, and emergent forms of digital media practice and use that are reconfiguring sociocultural, political, and economic terrains across the Indian subcontinent. From massive state-driven digital identity projects and YouTube censorship to Tinder and dating culture, from Twitter and primetime television to Facebook and political rumors, Global Digital Cultures focuses on enduring concerns of representation, identity, and power while grappling with algorithmic curation and data-driven processes of production, circulation, and consumption.
Author : Yoshishige Yoshida
Publisher : U of M Center for Japanese Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ozu's Anti-cinema written by Yoshishige Yoshida and published by U of M Center for Japanese Studies. This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A luminous exploration of one filmmaker's work by another, an artist's personal journey, a manifesto
Author : Kuei-fen Chiu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351691333
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Taiwan Cinema written by Kuei-fen Chiu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese glossary: Selected names and terms -- Selected Chinese filmography -- Bibliography -- Index
Author : Christopher Lupke
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621967069
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Download or read book The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien: Culture, Style, Voice, and Motion written by Christopher Lupke and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Featuring rare interviews and sophisticated analysis, this book sheds light on Hou's narrative innovations and aesthetic triumphs while, along the way, unlocking some of the mysteries lurking behind one of the greatest bodies of cinematic work ever produced." -MICHAEL BERRY, University of California Santa Barbara "Lupke's book provides comprehensive coverage, detailed contextualization, and insightful analysis from Hou's earliest works to his most recent accomplishment. The narrative is particularly compelling because it weaves cultural and social contexts and filmic texts together, and it brings various formal elements (image, editing, language, music) to bear upon one another. The book also includes careful comparison with another East Asian auteur Ozu Yasujirô. The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien is a significant addition." -GUO-JUIN, HONG, Duke University "Lupke's comprehensive and original study excavates the literary inspirations of Hou's filmmaking, showing how Wu Nianzhen, Shen Congwen, and especially Zhu Tianwen shape his philosophy and aesthetic. In Lupke's convincing account, the anti-filial behaviors of their characters, which have attracted little critical attention, are the key to understanding their shared concern for the visible dissolution of the family in the modern world. In addition to its lucid analysis, this book contextualizes the filmmaking history of Hou in ways that illustrate the cultural and political significance of studying Taiwan Cinema in a global context." -HSIU-CHUANG DEPPMAN, Oberlin College "Serving both as an excellent comprehensive introduction to the filmmaker and as a series of in-depth readings, this informative, engaging, and insightful book covers the full range of Hou's work. Writing clearly and elegantly, Lupke perceptively relates Hou's films to both literary and cinematic antecedents. Aside from Hou's well-known connection to Taiwan's 'native soil' literature, Lupke highlights as well the filmmaker's debt to earlier mainland Chinese authors such as Shen Congwen, Zhang Ailing, and Hu Lancheng. Hou's singular contribution to film aesthetics, summarized as 'stasis within motion,' comes through vividly and convincingly." -JASON MCGRATH, University of Minnesota *This book includes images.
Author : James Udden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Hou Hsiao-hsien and the Aesthetics of Historical Experience written by James Udden and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : PAUL G. PICKWICZ
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781621965459
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (654 download)
Download or read book Locating Taiwan Cineman in the Twenty-first Century written by PAUL G. PICKWICZ and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Berry
Publisher : British Film Institute
ISBN 13 : 9780851709864
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Chinese Films in Focus written by Chris Berry and published by British Film Institute. This book was released on 2003-11-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Author : Satyajit Ray
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231535473
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Satyajit Ray on Cinema written by Satyajit Ray and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satyajit Ray, one of the greatest auteurs of twentieth century cinema, was a Bengali motion-picture director, writer, and illustrator who set a new standard for Indian cinema with his Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) (1955), Aparajito (The Unvanquished) (1956), and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) (1959). His work was admired for its humanism, versatility, attention to detail, and skilled use of music. He was also widely praised for his critical and intellectual writings, which mirror his filmmaking in their precision and wide-ranging grasp of history, culture, and aesthetics. Spanning forty years of Ray's career, these essays, for the first time collected in one volume, present the filmmaker's reflections on the art and craft of the cinematic medium and include his thoughts on sentimentalism, mass culture, silent films, the influence of the French New Wave, and the experience of being a successful director. Ray speaks on the difficulty of adapting literary works to screen, the nature of the modern film festival, and the phenomenal contributions of Jean-Luc Godard and the Indian actor, director, producer, and singer Uttam Kumar. The collection also features an excerpt from Ray's diaries and reproduces his sketches of famous film personalities, such as Sergei Eisenstein, Charlie Chaplin, and Akira Kurosawa, in addition to film posters, photographs by and of the artist, film stills, and a filmography. Altogether, the volume relays the full extent of Ray's engagement with film and offers extensive access to the thought of one of the twentieth-century's leading Indian intellectuals.
Author : Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231502990
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Taiwan Film Directors written by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-06 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Brian Hu
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474428487
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Worldly Desires written by Brian Hu and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how internet use empowers Arab citizens
Author : Daw-Ming Lee
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810879220
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema written by Daw-Ming Lee and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taiwan was able to solidly build and sustain a film industry only after locally-produced Mandarin films secured markets in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. Though only a small island with a limited population, in its heyday, Taiwan was among the top-10 film producing countries/areas in the world, turning out hundreds of martial arts kung fu films and romantic melodramas annually that were screened in theaters across Southeast Asia and other areas internationally. However, except for one acclaimed film by director King Hu, Taiwan cinema was nearly invisible on the art cinema map until the 1980s, when the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, and other Taiwan New Cinema directors gained recognition at international film festivals, first in Europe, and later, throughout the world. Since then, many other Taiwan directors have also become an important part of cinema history, such as Ang Lee and Tsai Ming-liang. The Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema covers the history of cinema in Taiwan during both the Japanese colonial period (1895-1945) and the Chinese Nationalist period (1945-present). This is accomplished through a chronology highlighting the main events during the long period and an introduction which carefully analyses the progression. The bulk of the information, however, appears in a dictionary section including over a hundred very extensive entries on directors, producers, performers, films, film studios and genres. Photos are also included in the dictionary section. More information can be found through the bibliography. Taiwan cinema is truly unique and this book is a good place to find out more about it, whether you are a student, or teacher, or just a fan.
Author : Sheldon H. Lu
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824818456
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (184 download)
Download or read book Transnational Chinese Cinemas written by Sheldon H. Lu and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zhang Yimou's first film, Red Sorghum, took the Golden Bear Award in 1988 at the Berlin International Film Festival. Since then Chinese films have continued to arrest worldwide attention and capture major film awards, winning an international following that continues to grow. Transnational Chinese Cinemas spans nearly the entire length of twentieth-century Chinese film history. The volume traces the evolution of Chinese national cinema, and demonstrates that gender identity has been central to its formation. Femininity, masculinity and sexuality have been an integral part of the filmic discourses of modernity, nationhood, and history. This volume represents the most comprehensive, wide-ranging, and up-to-date study of China's major cinematic traditions. It is an indispensable source book for modern Chinese and Asian history, politics, literature, and culture.
