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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826488203321

Autore

Ma Sheng-mei

Titolo

The last isle : contemporary film, culture and trauma in global Taiwan / / Sheng-mei Ma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78348-340-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Place, Memory, Affect

Disciplina

792.10923489

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Taiwan - History and criticism

Motion pictures - Political aspects - Taiwan

Psychic trauma in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One: Trauma and Taiwan's Melodrama; Chapter Two: Island's Irony; Chapter Three: Mazu's Touch, Taiwan Nezha and Crying; Chapter Four: Globalization's Bottom; Chapter Five: Wet Umbrella from Asian Film to The White Snake; Chapter Six: Hyde-and-Seek in Asian Diaspora; Chapter Seven: Sold Mountain; Chapter Eight: Nestlé in Shalu; Chapter Nine: Taiwan's English Education; Chapter Ten: The Fate of Accidental Taiwanese; Coda; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>Explores the affective toll of Taiwan's geographical and political proximity to China through a critical analysis of contemporary Taiwanese film and culture. It examines the complex, precarious relationship between the sovereign state of Taiwan and China in order to consider what this might mean global anxiety around the growing power of China. </span></span>