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The Last Isle - Contemporary Film, Culture and Trauma in Global Taiwan (Hardcover)
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The Last Isle - Contemporary Film, Culture and Trauma in Global Taiwan (Hardcover)
Series: Place, Memory, Affect
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Taiwan is in danger of becoming the last isle, losing its
sovereignty and identity. The Last Isle opens from where Taiwan
film scholarship leaves off-the 1980s Taiwan New Cinema, focusing
on relatively unknown contemporary films that are "unglobalizable,"
such as Cape No. 7, Island Etude, Din Tao, and Seven Days in
Heaven. It explores Taiwan films' inextricability with trauma
theory, the irony of loving and mourning Taiwan, multilingualism,
local beliefs, and theatrical practices, including Ang Lee's
"white" films. The second half of the book analyzes Taiwan's
popular culture in Western-style food and drink, conditions over
living and dying, and English education, concluding with the source
of Taiwan's anxiety-China. This book distinguishes itself from
Taiwan scholarship in its stylistic crazy quilt of the scholarly
interwoven with the personal, evidenced right from the outset in
the poetic title "The Last Isle," coupled with the "dissertating"
subtitle. This approach intertwines the helix of reason and affect,
scholarship and emotion. The Last Isle accomplishes a look at
globalization from the bottom up, from a global Taiwan whose very
existence is in doubt.
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