Taiwan Cinema A Contested Nation on Screen
A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of popular genre films before the 1980s. The book is essential
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Taiwan Cinema A Contested Nation on Screen Guo-Juin Hong
TAIWAN CINEMA
Copyright © Guo-Juin Hong, 2011.
Softcover reprin t of the hardcover 1st edition 2011 978-0-230-1116 2-2 All rights reserved. Cover photo: Tainan, Taiwan, October 2009. Photograph by Guo-Juin Hong First published in 2011 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.
ISBN 978-1-349-29390-2 ISBN 978-0-230-11832-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230118324 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hong, Gou-Juin, 1967– Taiwan cinema : a contested nation on screen / Guo-Juin Hong. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Motion pictures—Taiwan. I. Title. PN1993.5.T28H66 2010 791.4309512499—dc22
2010030643
A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: March 2011 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For my parents; for Edward
Contents
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Notes on Names and Romanization
xv
Introduction: Taiwan Cinema and the Historiography of Absence
Part I 1
2 3
1
Genres
Colonial Archives, Postcolonial Archaeology: Pre-1945 Taiwan and the Hybrid Texts of Cinema before Nation
13
Cinema among Genres: An Unorthodox History of Taiwan’s Dialect Cinema, 1955–1970
33
Tracing a Journeyman’s Electric Shadow: Healthy Realism, Cultural Policies, and Lee Hsing, 1964–1980
65
Interlude: Hou Hsiao-Hsien before Hou Hsiao-Hsien: Film Aesthetics in Transition, 1980–1982
87
Part II Style 4 5 6
A Time to Live, a Time to Die: New Taiwan Cinema and Its Vicissitudes, 1982–1986
107
Island of No Return: Cinematic Narration as Retrospection in Wang Tong’s Taiwan Trilogy and Beyond
139
Anywhere but Here: The Postcolonial City in Tsai Ming-Liang’s Taipei Trilogy
159
Afterword: Cinema after Nation
183
viii
Contents
Appendix 1: List of Chinese Characters
187
Appendix 2: List of Film Titles in Chinese
191
Notes
195
Works Cited
215
Index
223
Illustrations
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Dust in the Wind, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1986 Lovable You, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1980 Lovable You, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1980 Play While You Play, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1981 Play While You Play, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1981 Play While You Play, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1981 Play While You Play, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1981 Green, Green Grass of Home, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1982 Green, Green Grass of Home, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1982 Green, Green Grass of Home, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1982 Green, Green Grass of Home, Hou Hs
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