The Last Isle: Contemporary Film, Culture and Trauma in Global Taiwan
Author:   Sheng-mei Ma
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9781783483389


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   21 August 2015
Format:   Hardback
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The Last Isle: Contemporary Film, Culture and Trauma in Global Taiwan


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Author:   Sheng-mei Ma
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9781783483389


ISBN 10:   1783483385
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   21 August 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments / Figures / Introduction / 1. Trauma and Taiwan’s Melodrama: Seven Orphans of Cape No. 7 / 2. Island’s Irony: Virtual Pilgrimage Circum-Taiwan in Search of the High Cs / 3. Mazu’s Touch, Taiwan Nezha and Crying / 4. Globalization’s Bottom: Subtitle and Switch in Wang Yu-Lin’s Taiwanese Dialect Films / 5. Wet Umbrella and The White Snake / 6. Hyde-and-Seek in Asian Diaspora: Deann Borshay Liem’s Negative and Ang Lee’s Ventriloquy / 7. Sold Mountain: Chinese-Language Films on Shangri-La / 8. Nestle in Shalu / 9. Taiwan’s English Education: A Fish with Three Heads / 10. The Fate of Accidental Taiwanese: 5 Ways to Leave Your Father / Coda: China Laying Golden Eggs / Bibliography / Index

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Sheng-mei Ma's "" The Last Isle"" is an engaging look at Taiwan's never-ending trauma through the lens of film, trauma, and popular culture. Ma does a masterful job of bringing together voluminous amounts of scattered information, carefully analyzed with an abundance of allusions to historical and contemporary phenomena, and presented with poetic-like prose. -- John A. Lent, International Journal of Comic Art


Sheng-mei Ma's The Last Isle is an engaging look at Taiwan's never-ending trauma through the lens of film, trauma, and popular culture. Ma does a masterful job of bringing together voluminous amounts of scattered information, carefully analyzed with an abundance of allusions to historical and contemporary phenomena, and presented with poetic-like prose. -- John A. Lent, International Journal of Comic Art


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Sheng-mei Ma is Professor of English at Michigan State University.

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