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The last isle : contemporary film, culture and trauma in global Taiwan

Title
The last isle : contemporary film, culture and trauma in global Taiwan / Sheng-mei Ma.
Author
Ma, Sheng-mei
Publication
London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2015]

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Description
ix, 197 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Series Statement
Place, memory, affect
Subject
  • Motion pictures > Taiwan > History
  • Motion pictures > Political aspects > Taiwan
  • Psychic trauma in motion pictures
  • Motion pictures
  • Motion pictures > Political aspects
  • Taiwan
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Trauma and Taiwan's melodrama: Seven orphans of Cape no. 7 -- Island's irony: virtual pilgrimage circum-Taiwan in Search of the high Cs -- Mazu's touch, Taiwan nezha, and crying -- Globalization's bottom: subtitle and switch in Wang Yu-Lin's Taiwanese dialect films -- Wet umbrella from Asian film to the White snake -- Hyde-and-seek in Asian diaspora: Deann Borshay Liem's Negative and Ang Lee's Ventriloquy -- Sold mountain: Chinese-language films on Shangri-la -- Nestle in Shalu -- Taiwan's English education: A fish with three heads -- The fate of accidental Taiwanese: 5 ways to leave your father -- Coda: China laying golden eggs.
Call Number
MFL 15-5528
ISBN
  • 9781783483389
  • 1783483385
  • 9781783483396
  • 1783483393
  • 9781783483402 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2015014786
OCLC
909538187
Author
Ma, Sheng-mei, author.
Title
The last isle : contemporary film, culture and trauma in global Taiwan / Sheng-mei Ma.
Publisher
London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2015]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Place, memory, affect
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index.
Research Call Number
MFL 15-5528
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