1st Edition
The Politics of Memory in Sinophone Cinemas and Image Culture Altering Archives
Introduction Peng Hsiao-yen and Ella Reidal
I. Remembering China: The Individual Self, the Collective, and the State Apparatus
Chapter 1. Why Remember Everyday Movie-Going in Cultural Revolution Shanghai? Chris Berry
Chapter 2. Persuasive Communication in Chinese Historical Film: The Founding of a Republic as a Milestone Isabel Wolte
Chapter 3. Images of Redress and Rehabilitation: "pingfan (in) film" and perceptions of coming to terms with the past in China Agnes Schick-Chen
Chapter 4. A Familiar Stranger - Grierson in China Xinyu Lu
II. Politicizing Archives: Artists and Digital History
Chapter 5. The Use and Abuse of the Archives in Contemporary Art Hongjohn Lin
Chapter 6. Making Reverberation: Residue of Sounds and Images Chen Chieh-jen
Chapter 7. The Digital Emergence of a New History: The Archiving of Colonial Japanese Documentaries on Taiwan Yu-lin Lee
III. Manufactured Archives: the Fictional Memory
Chapter 8. Wong Kar-wai’s Mood Trilogy: Robot, Tears, and the Affective Aura Peng Hsiao-yen
Chapter 9. The Missing and the Fictional Memory: Leitmotifs of Tsai Ming Liang’s Oeuvre Ella Raidel
Chapter 10. Light and Shadow of Jianghu: Peering into the Contemporary Political Mythology in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero and The Grandmaster Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo
Biography
Peng Hsiao-yen is Research Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
Ella Raidel is Senior Postdoc (Elise-Richter-PEEK) at Art University Linz, Austria.
