The Ethics of Witness Dailiness and History in Hou Hsiao-hsien's Films /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cai, Xiao (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : 2019.
Imprint: Springer,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Culture > Study and teaching.
Mass media.
Cultural Studies.
Media Sociology.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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