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Author: James Tweedie (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Washington)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 23.10cm
Weight: 0.567kg
ISBN: 9780199858309
ISBN 10: 0199858306
Pages: 380
Publication Date: 19 September 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The problem of the so-called 'new waves' is one that concerns cultural history and periodization generally, and not merely recent film history; nor is it exactly the same as that of 'avant-gardes', even though the two are related. James Tweedie's analysis of the French original is stimulating, but it is his study of the Chinese (and Taiwanese) versions that is truly revealing and I may even say indispensable. --Fredric Jameson In The Age of New Waves, James Tweedie takes discrete new wave cinemas from France to Taiwan out of the local contexts that produced them and into which they are too frequently confined, and makes a case for understanding the new wave as a global phenomenon. The result is a brilliant analysis that contributes to national as well as international cinema studies, while rethinking key aspects of both. Tweedie's book itself represents a new wave of scholarship on national cinemas in the world. --Akira Mizuta Lippit, author of Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video
<br> The problem of the so-called 'new waves' is one that concerns cultural history and periodization generally, and not merely recent film history; nor is it exactly the same as that of 'avant-gardes', even though the two are related. James Tweedie's analysis of the French original is stimulating, but it is his study of the Chinese (and Taiwanese) versions that is truly revealing and I may even say indispensable. --Fredric Jameson<p><br> In The Age of New Waves, James Tweedie takes discrete new wave cinemas from France to Taiwan out of the local contexts that produced them and into which they are too frequently confined, and makes a case for understanding the new wave as a global phenomenon. The result is a brilliant analysis that contributes to national as well as international cinema studies, while rethinking key aspects of both. Tweedie's book itself represents a new wave of scholarship on national cinemas in the world. --Akira Mizuta Lippit, author of Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video<p><br>
Author Information
James Tweedie is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and a member of the Cinema Studies faculty at the University of Washington.
