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

• Autore: Ma Sheng-mei
• Pubblicazione: London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 792.10923489
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - Taiwan - History and criticism; Motion pictures - Political aspects - Taiwan; Psychic trauma in motion pictures
• 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>
• Titolo autorizzato: The last isle
• ISBN: 1-78348-340-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826488203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Place, Memory, Affect