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Taiwan Cinema as Soft Power by Song Hwee Lim, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Song Hwee Lim

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Taiwan Cinema as Soft Power by Song Hwee Lim, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Taiwan Cinema as Soft Power by Song Hwee Lim, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Taiwan Cinema as Soft Power by Song Hwee Lim, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Why has Taiwanese film been so appealing to film directors, critics, and audiences across the world? This book argues that because Taiwan is a nation without hard political and economic power, cinema becomes a form of soft power tool that Taiwan uses to attract global attention, to gainsupport, and to build allies. Author Song Hwee Lim shows how this goal has been achieved by Taiwanese directors whose films win the hearts and minds of foreign audiences to make Taiwan a major force in world cinema. The book maps Taiwan's cinematic output in the twenty-first century through the three keywords in the book's subtitle-authorship, transnationality, historiography. Its object of analysis is the legacy of Taiwan New Cinema, a movement that begun in the early 1980s that has had a lasting impact uponfilmmakers and cinephiles worldwide for nearly forty years. By examining case studies that include Hou Hsiao-hsien, Ang Lee, and Tsai Ming-liang, this book suggests that authorship is central to Taiwan cinema's ability to transcend borders to the extent that the historiographical writing of Taiwancinema has to be reimagined. It also looks at the scaling down of soft power from the global to the regional via a cultural imaginary called "little freshness", which describes films and cultural products from Taiwan that have become hugely popular in China and Hong Kong. In presenting Taiwancinema's significance as a case of a small nation with enormous soft power, this book hopes to recast the terms and stakes of both cinema studies and soft power studies in academia. | Taiwan Cinema as Soft Power by Song Hwee Lim, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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