Culture and Society Taiwan cinema and Southeast Asian Chinese diaspora filmmakers: The case of Midi Z September 7, 2019 0 Written by Maja Korbecka. Image credit: untitled by it is elisa/Flickr, license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 In recent years most representatives of Taiwanese cinema to gain recognition at the…
Film Qiong Yao films and Taiwan society May 15, 2019 0 Written by Xuelin Zhou. Image Credit: Cinema by Do u remember/Flickr, License CC BY-SA 2.0. Between 1965 and 1983, fifty feature films were produced in Taiwan…
Taiwan Exploring the Gendered Cultural Politics of Seediq Bale’ March 5, 2019 0 Written By Chin-ju Lin. The historical epic Seediq Bale (賽德克．巴萊, 2011), directed by Wei De-sheng (魏德聖) is the most expensive and highest grossing blockbuster in…
Taiwan Dear Ex: A Return to Family Melodrama March 3, 2019 0 Written by Shao-yi Chan. The 2018 Golden Horse Awards had the international film circuit and critics open-mouthed with two highly publicised dramatic events. First, the…
Taiwan Walking Slowly: Style and motifs of Tsai Ming-liang’s film art (Part I) October 30, 2018 0 “I think that our present age is probably the worst time of all to be alive… Living in today’s world is terrible, I’m always scared…
Taiwan The Poetics of Tsai Ming-liang October 29, 2018 0 Written by Cecília Mello The films of Tsai Ming-liang have been helping to shape our world cinema landscape since the early 1990s. On one hand, they belong to what…
