The Last Isle :Contemporary Film, Culture and Trauma in Global Taiwan ( 1 )

Publication subTitle :Contemporary Film, Culture and Trauma in Global Taiwan

Publication series :1

Author: Ma   Sheng-mei  

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International‎

Publication year: 2015

E-ISBN: 9781783483402

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781783483389

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781783483389

Subject: D0 Political Theory;D523.8 移民、侨民;D523.91 难民;I1 World Literature;I2 Chinese Literature;J9 Movies, TV;K901 human geography

Keyword: 政治理论,电影、电视艺术,地理,世界政治,中国文学,文学

Language: ENG

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Description

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.

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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

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