1st Edition
Film Production and Consumption in Contemporary Taiwan Cinema as a Sensory Circuit
By Ya-Feng Mon
Copyright 2016
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book uses the potent case study of contemporary Taiwanese queer romance films to address the question of how capitalism in Taiwan has privileged the film industry at the expense of the audience's freedom to choose and respond to culture on its own terms. Interweaving in-depth interviews with filmmakers, producers, marketers, and spectators, Ya-Fong Mon takes a biopolitical approach to the... Read more
Acknowledgements, Chapter One Through the Nexus of Bodies and Things: Introduction Chapter Two Mediated Knowledge: Methodology Chapter Three Bodily Fantasy: Embodied Spectatorship and Object Intervention Chapter Four Sensory Linkage: The Politics of Genre Film Making Chapter Five Intimacy: Internet Marketing as Collaborative Production Chapter Six Indeterminacy: Control and the (Un)productive Body Chapter Seven Mediation and Connections in a Precarious Age: Conclusion, Bibliography, Index, Notes.
Biography
Ya-Feng Mon holds a doctorate from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her background in film journalism has allowed her unique insights into the complex terrain of film production and consumption. Her recent research interests lie in various embodied experiences of technologies.
