Taiwan Film Directors

Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh is associate professor of cinema studies in the Department of Cinema-Television and associate director of the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. She is the author of Phantom of the Music: Song and Narration in Chinese-language Cinema and the coeditor of Chinese-Language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics. Darrell William Davis is senior lecturer at the School of Theatre, Film, and Dance at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is the author of Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film.

This book is a highly intelligent and welcome guide to the movement as whole, and to some of its major participants. -- Bradley Winterton Taipei times A fine first chapter on Taiwan's film industry. -- June Teufel Dreyer Taipei Review a veritable jewel for those interested in Taiwanese film culture and its domestic and international evolution. Film-Philosophy A most welcome arrival on the scene for Asian Cinema as a whole, and is a book long over due. -- James Udden Film International Extremely valuable. -- Yu-Jyuan Jian Canadian Journal of Film Studies Taiwan Film Directors provides a much-needed, comprehensive history ofTaiwan cinema. -- Alexander C. Y. Huang The Journal of Asian Studies