Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals

Beth Tsai is Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses primarily on the cinema of Taiwan, film festivals, and transnational film theory. She has published in the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Journal of Asian Cinema, and Oxford Bibliographies.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsINTRODUCTIONPART I. HISTORICIZING TAIWAN NEW CINEMA1. The Rise of Taiwan New Cinema and the Festival Strategy2. Women Critics and Building the AuteurPART II. FILMMAKERS IN FOCUS3. Going East: Women Walk the City in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Le voyage du ballon rouge (2007) and Café Lumière (2003)4. Going West: Tsai Ming-liang at the Louvre and Cinema in the Gallery5. A Southbound Turn: Dreaming Taiwan in Midi Z’s Realist Films6. To the Future: Film Festivals as Producers and Sleeping in the CinemaPostscript: An American Girl in TaiwanBibliography

Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals is a delight! It marks out a beguiling path connecting Taiwan New Cinema, advocate criticism, and film festivals into a unique fabric of contemporary film culture. Tsai’s adroit storytelling is original and provocative.