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Edward Yang

  • ISBN-13: 9780252072369
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By John Anderson
  • Price: AUD $47.99
  • Stock: 2 in stock
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2005
  • Format: Paperback (150.00mm X 150.00mm) 144 pages Weight: 180g
  • Categories: Film, TV & radio [AP]
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Having largely given up on a career in film, Edward Yang had been working as a computer engineer for several years when he saw Herzog's Aguirre, Wrath of God. Inspired to return to film, Yang, along with a handful of other filmmakers including the great Hou Hsiao-hsien, went on to found the Taiwanese New Wave of the early 1980s. Film critic John Anderson's Edward Yang offers a comprehensive overview of the work of the writer-director--already considered one of the most important filmmakers of the past twenty years--from his breakthrough feature That Day, on the Beach to the epic Yi-Yi. Rooted in questions about what it means to be Taiwanese, Yang's films reveal the complexity of life within the island's patchwork culture. Anderson identifies the key narrative strategies, formal devices, moral vision, and sociopolitical concerns shot through Yang's films. He explains what makes these films so distinctive by pinpointing the specific qualities of Yang's style and outlook.''Anderson offers a comprehensive, film-by-film examination of Yang's career.''--Booklist ''Anderson displays a careful eye for detail, and for the nuance of Yang's psychologically subtle films.''--Cineaste
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