Taiwan Cinema
Book description
A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of popular genre films before the 1980s. The book is essential for students and scholars of Taiwan,…
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1 author picked Taiwan Cinema as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I recommend this book because it is one of the few single-authored monographs in English that covers Taiwan cinema exclusively and comprehensively.
The study of Taiwan cinema has proliferated and diversified a great deal in recent years. However, when Hong’s Taiwan Cinema was published in 2011, most books on this subject were edited volumes and tended to have a narrower focus at the time. I like the fact that the author has offered many first-hand research materials.
I learned not only about the history of Taiwan cinema from pre-1945 to the new millennium but also why and how Taiwan cinema…
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