MCLC: Documenting Taiwan on Film

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: tze-lan sang (sang at uoregon.edu)
Subject: Documenting Taiwan on Film
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Sylvia Li-chun Lin and Tze-lan Deborah Sang are delighted to announce
the publication of Documenting Taiwan on Film: Issues and Methods in
New Documentaries, the first book-length study in English on Taiwanese
nonfiction film.

Documenting Taiwan on Film: Issues and Methods in New Documentaries
Edited by Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Tze-lan Deborah Sang
Series: Routledge Research on Taiwan Series

Since the lifting of martial law, documentary has witnessed a revival
in Taiwan, with increasing numbers of young, independent filmmakers
covering a wide range of subject matter. These documentaries capture
images of Taiwan in its transformation from an agricultural island to
a capitalist economy in the global market, as well as from an
authoritarian system to democracy. What make these documentaries a
unique subject of academic inquiry lies not only in their exploration
of local Taiwanese issues but, more importantly, in the contribution
they make to the field of nonfiction film studies. As the former
third-world countries and Soviet bloc begin to re-examine their past
and document social changes on film, the case of Taiwan will
undoubtedly become a valuable source of comparison and inspiration.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction   Tze-lan D. Sang and Sylvia Li-chun Lin

2. Re/Making Histories: On Historical Documentary Film and Taiwan: A
People¹s History   Daw-Ming Lee

3. Re-Creating the White Terror on the Screen   Sylvia Li-chun Lin

4. Reclaiming Taiwan¹s Colonial Modernity: The Case of Viva Tonal: The
Dance Age  Tze-lan D. Sang

5. Cultivating Taiwanese: Yen Lan-chuan and Juang Yi-tseng¹s Let it Be
(Wu Mi Le)   Bert M. Scruggs

6.The Politics and Aesthetics of Seeing in Jump! Boys    Hsiu-Chuang
Deppman

7. "Should I Put Down the Camera?": Ethics in Contemporary Taiwanese
Documentary Films   Kuei-fen Chiu

8. Documenting Environmental Protest: Taiwan¹s Gongliao Fourth Nuclear
Power Plant And the Cultural Politics of Dialogic Artifice
Christopher Lupke

9. Sentimentalism and the Phenomenon of Collective "Inward-looking": A
Critical Analysis of Mainstream Taiwanese Documentary   Li-hsin Kuo

Editor Biography

Sylvia Li-chun Lin is Associate Professor of Chinese in the Department
of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Notre Dame,
USA.

Tze-lan D. Sang is Associate Professor of Chinese at the University of
Oregon, USA.

March 2012 | Hardback: 978-0-415-68511-5

For more information or online ordering, visit
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