The Ethics of Witness [[electronic resource] ] : Dailiness and History in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Films / / by Xiao Cai

• Autore: Cai Xiao
• Pubblicazione: Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2019.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Disciplina: 791.430232092
• Soggetto topico: Cultural studies; Communication; Sociology; Cultural Studies; Media Research
• Nota di contenuto: Hou Hsiao-hsien: Films and Reading -- A Poetics of Time: the Representation of Daily Life -- Remapping Taiwan: Space as a Time Monument -- The Poetics of Memory and Mourning -- The Poetics of the Ordinary in Representation of History.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the aesthetic and ethical ways in which history and daily life are filmically represented and witnessed in Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien’s movies. From the era of the Japanese Occupation to the White Horror and then to the lifting of martial law, the author shows how Hou Hsiao-hsien uses visual media to evoke the rhythms of daily life through the emotional memory of the characters and communities he explores. In particular, the book focuses on the ways in which Hou Hsiao-hsien seeks to reflect the strong dilemmas of identity and the traumatic emotions associated with witnessing history. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it investigates the concepts of daily life, representation and historical trauma in order to focus on how these films represent history and political trauma through the nature of daily life and personal memories, and the resulting historical responsibility and ethics. This is the first academic monography about Hou Hsiao-hsien’s films.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Ethics of Witness
• ISBN: 981-13-2170-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910350285003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II