James Tweedie is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and a member of the Cinema Studies faculty at the University of Washington.

The problem of the so-called 'new waves' is one that concerns cultural history and periodization generally, and not merely recent film history; nor is it exactly the same as that of 'avant-gardes', even though the two are related. James Tweedie's analysis of the French original is stimulating, but it is his study of the Chinese (and Taiwanese) versions that is truly revealing and I may even say indispensable.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS ; Introduction Youth, Cities, and the Globalization of Art Cinema ; SECTION ONE ; Chapter One The Mise en Scene of Modernity: The French New Wave, Paris, and the Global 1960s ; Chapter Two Walking in the City ; Chapter Three New Wave Futures ; SECTION TWO ; Chapter Four The Urban Archipelago: Taiwan's New Wave and the East Asian Economic Boom ; Chapter Five Morning in the Megacity: Taiwan and the Globalization of the City Film ; Chapter Six The Haunting of Taipei ; SECTION THREE ; Chapter Seven Chinese Cinema in a World of Flows: The New Wave in the P.R.C. ; Chapter Eight The Fifth Generation and the Youth of China ; Chapter Nine On Living in a Young City

James Tweedie is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and a member of the Cinema Studies faculty at the University of Washington.

The problem of the so-called 'new waves' is one that concerns cultural history and periodization generally, and not merely recent film history; nor is it exactly the same as that of 'avant-gardes', even though the two are related. James Tweedie's analysis of the French original is stimulating, but it is his study of the Chinese (and Taiwanese) versions that is truly revealing and I may even say indispensable.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS ; Introduction Youth, Cities, and the Globalization of Art Cinema ; SECTION ONE ; Chapter One The Mise en Scene of Modernity: The French New Wave, Paris, and the Global 1960s ; Chapter Two Walking in the City ; Chapter Three New Wave Futures ; SECTION TWO ; Chapter Four The Urban Archipelago: Taiwan's New Wave and the East Asian Economic Boom ; Chapter Five Morning in the Megacity: Taiwan and the Globalization of the City Film ; Chapter Six The Haunting of Taipei ; SECTION THREE ; Chapter Seven Chinese Cinema in a World of Flows: The New Wave in the P.R.C. ; Chapter Eight The Fifth Generation and the Youth of China ; Chapter Nine On Living in a Young City

James Tweedie is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and a member of the Cinema Studies faculty at the University of Washington.

The problem of the so-called 'new waves' is one that concerns cultural history and periodization generally, and not merely recent film history; nor is it exactly the same as that of 'avant-gardes', even though the two are related. James Tweedie's analysis of the French original is stimulating, but it is his study of the Chinese (and Taiwanese) versions that is truly revealing and I may even say indispensable.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS ; Introduction Youth, Cities, and the Globalization of Art Cinema ; SECTION ONE ; Chapter One The Mise en Scene of Modernity: The French New Wave, Paris, and the Global 1960s ; Chapter Two Walking in the City ; Chapter Three New Wave Futures ; SECTION TWO ; Chapter Four The Urban Archipelago: Taiwan's New Wave and the East Asian Economic Boom ; Chapter Five Morning in the Megacity: Taiwan and the Globalization of the City Film ; Chapter Six The Haunting of Taipei ; SECTION THREE ; Chapter Seven Chinese Cinema in a World of Flows: The New Wave in the P.R.C. ; Chapter Eight The Fifth Generation and the Youth of China ; Chapter Nine On Living in a Young City