Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island (Film and Culture Series) - Softcover

This book is a highly intelligent and welcome guide to the movement as whole, and to some of its major participants. -- Bradley Winterton Taipei times A fine first chapter on Taiwan's film industry. -- June Teufel Dreyer Taipei Review a veritable jewel for those interested in Taiwanese film culture and its domestic and international evolution. Film-Philosophy A most welcome arrival on the scene for Asian Cinema as a whole, and is a book long over due. -- James Udden Film International Extremely valuable. -- Yu-Jyuan Jian Canadian Journal of Film Studies Taiwan Film Directors provides a much-needed, comprehensive history ofTaiwan cinema. -- Alexander C. Y. Huang The Journal of Asian Studies

Focusing on the work of four contemporary filmmakers-Ang Lee, Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang-the authors explore how these filmmakers broke from tradition, creating a cinema that is both personal and insistent on examining Taiwan's complex history. Featuring stills, anecdotes, and close readings of films, the authors consider the influence of Hong Kong and martial arts films, directors' experiments with autobiography, the shifting fortunes of the Taiwanese film industry, and Taiwan cinema in the context of international cinema's aesthetics and business practices.