New Taiwanese Cinema in Focus

Flannery Wilson received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Riverside in June 2011. She teaches French, Italian and film studies. Currently, she is teaching French at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. Her research sheds light on the cross-cultural interactions between French and Italian and Chinese cinema(s). Her articles have appeared in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Senses of Cinema, and the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema.

• Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. Charting the Course: Defining the Taiwanese Cinematic ‘Tradition’; 2. Taiwanese-Italian Conjugations: The Fractured Story-Telling of Edward Yang’s The Terrorizers and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up; 3. Mapping Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Visuality: Setting, Silence, and the Incongruence of Translation in Flight of the Red Balloon; 4. Disjointed Connectivity and Lonely Intertextuality in Tsai Ming-liang’s What Time is it There?; 5. The Chinese/Hollywood Aesthetic of Ang Lee: ‘Westernized’, Capitalist…and Box Office Gold; 6. Filming Disappearance or Renewal? The Ever-Changing Representations of Taipei in Contemporary Taiwanese Cinema; Conclusion; Bibliography; Filmography; Notes; Index

Flannery Wilson takes a discerning look at Taiwanese cinema in the last quarter century. Her clear-sighted and well-considered study offers fresh insight into some of the most important films and filmmakers of our time.