In Promiscuous Media, Hikari Hori makes a compelling case that the visual culture of Showa-
era Japan articulated urgent issues of modernity rather than serving as a simple expression …

This chapter argues that the multisensory environment of the screening space has as much
to contribute to the cinematic experience as the films. The first part synthesizes and theorizes …

Translingual Narration is a study of colonial Taiwanese fiction, its translation from Japanese
to Chinese, and films produced during and about the colonial era. It is a postcolonial …

Much has been written about New Taiwan Cinema in recent years (Berry/Lu 2005;
Davis/Chen 2007; Yeh/Davis 2005). In particular, City of Sadness (Beiqing chengshi, 1989) …

This article examines four major critical paradigms in contemporary Chinese-language
cinema studies. It traces the genesis, characteristics, strengths and limitations of each of …

Huang Shi)(dir. Roger Spottiswoode, 2008); The Dragon Pearl (dir. Mario Andreacchio,
2011) and 33 Postcards (Mei Mei)(dir. Pauline Chan, 2011). All three films either use …

Studies on early cinema regard benshi as a figure that introduced and filtered foreign
cultures through his narration and performance. Colonial Taiwan developed a benshi …

INTRODUCTION Page 1 INTRODUCTION 1. Yunnansheng dianying faxing fangying
gongzuo jinian tekan (Commemorative publication on film distribution and exhibition work …

This research introduces the development of a specialized Question Answering (QA)
system, designed to tackle the challenges posed by dispersed domain knowledge …

The foundational infrastructure of the Taiwanese film industry is generally viewed as having
being established during the period of Japanese colonization, when the Japanese colonial …