@article{1398200,
      recid = {1398200},
      author = {Cai, Xiao.},
      title = {The ethics of witness : dailiness and history in Hou  Hsiao-hsien's films /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {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.--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1398200},
}