Island On The Edge

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Contents: Contributors = vii Introduction / Chris Berry and Feii Lu = 1 1. The Terrorizer and the Great Divide in Contemporary Taiwan's Cultural Development = 13 Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang 2. Reflections on the Screen: Hou Hsiao Hsien's Dustin the Wind and the Rhythms of the Taiwan New Cinema = 27 Haden Guest 3. A Borrowed Life in Banana Paradise: De-Cold War/Decolonization, or Modernity and Its Tears = 39 Chen Kuan-Hsing 4. Hou Hsiao Hsien's City of Sadness: History and the Dialogic Female Voice = 55 Rosemary Haddon 5. A Myth(ology) Mythologizing Its Own Closure: Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day = 67 Liu Yu-hsiu 6. Hou Hsiao Hsien's The Puppetmaster: The Poetics of Landscape = 79 Nick Browne 7. Where Is the Love? Hyperbolic Realism and Indulgence in Vive L'Amour = 89 Chris Berry 8. Generational/Cultural Contradiction and Global Incorporation: Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman = 101 Ti Wei 9. On Tsai Mingliang's The River = 113 Gina Marchetti 10. Compulsory Orientalism: Hou Hsiao Hsien's Flowers of Shanghai = 127 Nick Kaldis 11. Another Cinema: Darkness &Light = 137 Feii Lu 12. The China Simulacrum: Genre, Feminism, and Pan-Chinese Cultural Politics in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon = 149 Fran Martin Appendix: Filmmakers and Films = 161 Notes = 169 Index = 191

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