Island on the Edge: Taiwan New Cinema and After (Hardback): Taiwan New Cinema and After

Contents

• Contributors vii • Introduction 1 Chris Berry and Feii Lu 1. The Terrorizer and the Great Divide in Contemporary 13 Taiwan’s Cultural Development Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang 2. Reflections on the Screen: Hou Hsiao Hsien’s Dust In the 27 Wind and the Rhythms of the Taiwan New Cinema Haden Guest 3. A Borrowed Life in Banana Paradise: De-Cold War/ 39 Decolonization, or Modernity and Its Tears Chen Kuan-Hsing 4. Hou Hsiao Hsien’s City of Sadness: History and the Dialogic 55 Female Voice Rosemary Haddon 5. A Myth(ology) Mythologizing Its Own Closure: 67 Edward Yang’s A Brighter Summer Day Liu Yu-hsiu Contents vi Contents 6. Hou Hsiao Hsien’s The Puppetmaster: The Poetics of Landscape 79 Nick Browne 7. Where Is the Love? Hyperbolic Realism and Indulgence in 89 Vive L’Amour Chris Berry 8. Generational/Cultural Contradiction and Global Incorporation: 101 Ang Lee’s Eat Drink Man Woman Ti Wei 9. On Tsai Mingliang’s The River 113 Gina Marchetti 10. Compulsory Orientalism: Hou Hsiao Hsien’s Flowers of 127 Shanghai Nick Kaldis 11. Another Cinema: Darkness & Light 137 Feii Lu 12. The China Simulacrum: Genre, Feminism, and Pan-Chinese 149 Cultural Politics in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Fran Martin • Appendix: Filmmakers and Films 161 • Notes 169 • Index 191 ...