Product Description

This is a well-illustrated, in-depth study of Taiwanese film and its most celebrated film directors. Focusing on the extraordinarily rich 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #742962 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
"This book is a highly intelligent and welcome guide to the movement as whole, and to some of its major participants." -- Bradley Winterton, Taipei times "A fine first chapter on Taiwan's film industry." -- June Teufel Dreyer, Taipei Review "a veritable jewel for those interested in Taiwanese film culture and its domestic and international evolution." -- Film-Philosophy, 10.1 "A most welcome arrival on the scene for Asian Cinema as a whole, and is a book long over due." -- James Udden, Film International "Extremely valuable." -- Yu-Jyuan Jian, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Vol. 17 No. 1

About the Author
Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh is associate professor of cinema studies in the Department of Cinema-Television and associate director of the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. She is the author of Phantom of the Music: Song and Narration in Chinese-language Cinema and the coeditor of Chinese-Language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics.Darrell William Davis is senior lecturer at the School of Theatre, Film, and Dance at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is the author of Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film.