Documenting Taiwan on Film

To date, there is but a handful of articles on documentary films from Taiwan. This volume seeks to remedy the paucity in this area of research and conduct a systematic analysis of the genre. Each contributor to the volume investigates the various aspects of documentary by focusing on one or two specific films that document social, political and cultural changes in recent Taiwanese history.

Auteur

Sylvia Li-chun Lin is Associate Professor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

Tze-lan D. Sang is Associate Professor of Chinese at the University of Oregon, USA.

Contenu

1. Introduction Tze-lan D. Sang and Sylvia Li-chun Lin
   2. Re/Making Histories: On Historical Documentary Film and Taiwan: A People's History Daw-Ming Lee
      3. Re-Creating the White Terror on the Screen Sylvia Li-chun Lin
         4. Reclaiming Taiwan's Colonial Modernity: The Case of Viva Tonal: The Dance Age, Tze-lan D. Sang
            5. Cultivating Taiwanese: Yen Lan-chuan and Juang Yi-tseng's Let it Be (Wu Mi Le), Bert M. Scruggs 6.The Politics and Aesthetics of Seeing in Jump! Boys, Hsiu-Chuang Deppman
               7. "Should I Put Down the Camera?": Ethics in Contemporary Taiwanese Documentary Films Kuei-fen Chiu
                  8. Documenting Environmental Protest: Taiwan's Gongliao Fourth Nuclear Power Plant And the Cultural Politics of Dialogic Artifice Christopher Lupke
                     9. Sentimentalism and the Phenomenon of Collective "Inward-looking": A Critical Analysis of Mainstream Taiwanese Documentary Li-hsin Kuo