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  3. Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Mainland China
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      12 January 2010
      06 August 2001
      ISBN:
      9780511549663
      9780521806770
      9780521037273
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549663
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.55kg, 258 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.398kg, 260 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Film, Area Studies, Asian Studies, Film, Media, Mass Communication
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    This book is a cultural study of New Wave cinema that considers the experience of modernity and modernization in Taiwan and mainland China. While following separate paths, Taiwan and China have rapidly modernized, economically and culturally, since 1949. Despite differences in the political, social and economic systems of these countries, the process of modernization in both have challenged traditional cultural norms. Tonglin Lu examines how differences in cultural formation between Taiwan and China have influenced reactions to modernity and how cultural identity has taken different forms on both sides of the Taiwan straits. She illustrates how these differences in the experience of modernity are expressed through analysis of paradigmatic films produced in both countries, with a particular emphasis on their formal experiments.

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    "Lu's book will help scholars understand major themes in China's "fifth generation" directors, who grew up during the Cultural Revolution, and those directors of Taiwan known as "new cinema" filmmakers." CHOICE

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