The last isle [electronic resource] : contemporary film, culture and trauma in global Taiwan / Sheng-mei Ma
- 作者： Ma, Sheng-mei.
- 其他題名：
- Place, memory, affect
- 出版： London ;New York : Rowman & Littlefield International [2015]
- 叢書名： Place, memory, affect
- 主題： Motion pictures--Taiwan--History and criticism , Motion pictures--Political aspects--Taiwan , Psychic trauma in motion pictures
- ISBN： 9781783483402 (e-book)
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- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index
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- 系統號： 005237081 | 機讀編目格式
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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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Introduction Trauma and Taiwan's melodrama: Seven orphans of Cape no. 7 Island's irony: virtual pilgrimage circum-Taiwan in Search of th high Cs Mazu's touch, Taiwan nezha, and crying Globalization's bottom subtitle and switch in Wang Yu-Lin's Taiwanese dialect films Wet umbrell from Asian film to the White snake Hyde-and-seek in Asian diaspora: Dean Borshay Liem's Negative and Ang Lee's Ventriloquy Sold mountain Chinese-language films on Shangri-la Nestle in Shalu Taiwan's Englis education: A fish with three heads The fate of accidental Taiwanese: ways to leave your father Coda: China laying golden eggs