Taiwan Cinema―A Contested Nation on Screen

***Listed in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION's Weekly Book List, April 4, 2011***Interview with the author: http://dgeneratefilms.com/critical-essays/cinematalk-a-conversation-with-professor-guo-juin-hong-on-taiwan-cinema-1949-and-documentaries/

A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, this is the first English language book that covers its entire history. Hong revises how Taiwan cinema is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of popular genre films before the 1980s. This work is essential reading for students and scholars of Taiwan and Chinese-language cinemas and those interested in the larger context of East Asian cultural history as well as film and visual studies in general.

Guo-Juin Hong is an associate professor of Chinese Cultural Studies in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. His essay on colonial modernity in 1930s Shanghai was the winner of the 2009 Katherine Kovacs Essay Award, Honorable Mention, and his dissertation received the 2005 Dissertation of the Year Award, Honorable Mention, both by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.