The ethics of witness : dailiness and history in Hou Hsiao-hsien's films / Xiao Cai.
2019
PN2039
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Title
The ethics of witness : dailiness and history in Hou Hsiao-hsien's films / Xiao Cai.
Author
Cai, Xiao.
ISBN
9789811321702 (electronic bk.)
9811321701 (electronic bk.)
9789811321696
9811321701 (electronic bk.)
9789811321696
Published
Cham : Springer, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
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PN2039
Dewey Decimal Classification
792.01
Summary
This book explores the aesthetic and ethical ways in which history and daily life are filmically represented and witnessed in Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's movies. From the era of the Japanese Occupation to the White Horror and then to the lifting of martial law, the author shows how Hou Hsiao-hsien uses visual media to evoke the rhythms of daily life through the emotional memory of the characters and communities he explores. In particular, the book focuses on the ways in which Hou Hsiao-hsien seeks to reflect the strong dilemmas of identity and the traumatic emotions associated with witnessing history. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it investigates the concepts of daily life, representation and historical trauma in order to focus on how these films represent history and political trauma through the nature of daily life and personal memories, and the resulting historical responsibility and ethics. This is the first academic monography about Hou Hsiao-hsien's films.-- Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
Hou Hsiao-hsien: Films and Reading
A Poetics of Time: the Representation of Daily Life
Remapping Taiwan: Space as a Time Monument
The Poetics of Memory and Mourning
The Poetics of the Ordinary in Representation of History.
A Poetics of Time: the Representation of Daily Life
Remapping Taiwan: Space as a Time Monument
The Poetics of Memory and Mourning
The Poetics of the Ordinary in Representation of History.