Description
In this groundbreaking work, Davis and Yeh at once offer the reader something illuminating in theoretical engagement, erudite in historical delineation, and lucid in writing style. It is a must-read. -- Sheldon Lu, University of California, Davis, coeditor of Chinese-Language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics With a sumptuous fund of historical details and formal insights, this landmark study of Taiwan film directors articulates questions of cultural production in ways that resonate well beyond the Asia Pacific. A superb resource both for the general reader and for the specialist. -- Rey Chow, Brown University, author of Primitive Passions, Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema Taiwanese cinema, remarkably creative for twenty-five years, receivesits due in this stimulating book. Elegantly blending cultural historyand film analysis, Yeh and Davis shed new light on the extraordinaryachievements of Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Ming-liang, Ang Lee,and other renowned directors. Taiwan Film Directors is a sensitive andprobing introduction to one of the world's most exciting cinematictraditions. -- David Bordwell, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author ofFigures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging Taiwan is home to some of today's finest working filmmakers-and in the case of Hou Hsiao-hsien, one the finest ever. Darrell Davis and Emilie Yeh's thoughtful study of the Taiwan New Cinema could not be more welcome. -- J. Hoberman, film critic The Village Voice
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.
Reviews
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 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 Taiwan Film Directors provides a much-needed, comprehensive history ofTaiwan cinema. -- Alexander C. Y. Huang The Journal of Asian Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9780231128988
Author Yueh-yu Yeh
Format Hardback
Page Count 312
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press
Series Film and Culture Series