Sheng-Mei Ma

The Last Isle

Contemporary Film, Culture and Trauma in Global Taiwan

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the affective toll of Taiwan's geographical and political proximity to China through a critical analysis of contemporary Taiwanese film and culture. It examines the complex, precarious relationship between the sovereign state of Taiwan and China in order to consider what this might mean global anxiety around the growing power of China.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9781783483389
• ISBN-10: 1783483385
• Artikelnr.: 42548983

Autorenporträt

Sheng-mei Ma is Professor of English at Michigan State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Figures
Introduction
1. Trauma and Taiwan's Melodrama: Seven Orphans of Cape No. 7
2. Island's Irony: Virtual Pilgrimage Circum-Taiwan in Search of the High Cs
3. Mazu's Touch, Taiwan Nezha and Crying
4. Globalization's Bottom: Subtitle and Switch in Wang Yu-Lin's Taiwanese Dialect Films
5. Wet Umbrella and The White Snake
6. Hyde-and-Seek in Asian Diaspora: Deann Borshay Liem's Negative and Ang Lee's Ventriloquy
7. Sold Mountain: Chinese-Language Films on Shangri-La
8. Nestle in Shalu
9. Taiwan's English Education: A Fish with Three Heads
10. The Fate of Accidental Taiwanese: 5 Ways to Leave Your Father
Coda: China Laying Golden Eggs
Bibliography
Index