Thirty-Two New Takes on Taiwan Cinema (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780472075461)

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
ISBN-10: 0472075462
ISBN-13: 9780472075461
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Language: English
Published: 12/22/2022
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.22w x 1.81d