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Taiwan Cinema as Soft Power - Authorship, Transnationality, Historiography (Paperback)
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Taiwan Cinema as Soft Power - Authorship, Transnationality, Historiography (Paperback)
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Why has Taiwanese film been so appealing to film directors,
critics, and audiences across the world? This book argues that
because Taiwan is a nation without hard political and economic
power, cinema becomes a form of soft power tool that Taiwan uses to
attract global attention, to gain support, and to build allies.
Author Song Hwee Lim shows how this goal has been achieved by
Taiwanese directors whose films win the hearts and minds of foreign
audiences to make Taiwan a major force in world cinema. The book
maps Taiwan's cinematic output in the twenty-first century through
the three keywords in the book's subtitle-authorship,
transnationality, historiography. Its object of analysis is the
legacy of Taiwan New Cinema, a movement that begun in the early
1980s that has had a lasting impact upon filmmakers and cinephiles
worldwide for nearly forty years. By examining case studies that
include Hou Hsiao-hsien, Ang Lee, and Tsai Ming-liang, this book
suggests that authorship is central to Taiwan cinema's ability to
transcend borders to the extent that the historiographical writing
of Taiwan cinema has to be reimagined. It also looks at the scaling
down of soft power from the global to the regional via a cultural
imaginary called "little freshness", which describes films and
cultural products from Taiwan that have become hugely popular in
China and Hong Kong. In presenting Taiwan cinema's significance as
a case of a small nation with enormous soft power, this book hopes
to recast the terms and stakes of both cinema studies and soft
power studies in academia.
General
Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2022 |
Authors: |
Song Hwee Lim
(Professor of Cultural Studies)
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Dimensions: |
236 x 156 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-750338-6 |
Categories: |
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Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Films, cinema >
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LSN: |
0-19-750338-1 |
Barcode: |
9780197503386 |
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