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Daw-Ming Lee - Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema - 9780810867925 - V9780810867925
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Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema

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Description for Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema Series: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. Num Pages: 508 pages, 46 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; APF; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 167 x 40. Weight in Grams: 928.
Taiwan was able to solidly build and sustain a film industry only after locally-produced Mandarin films secured markets in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. Though only a small island with a limited population, in its heyday, Taiwan was among the top-10 film producing countries/areas in the world, turning out hundreds of martial arts kung fu films and romantic melodramas annually that were screened in theaters across Southeast Asia and other areas internationally. However, except for one acclaimed film by director King Hu, Taiwan cinema was nearly invisible on the art cinema map until the 1980s, ... Read more

Product Details

Publication date
2012
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
508
Condition
New
Series
Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
Number of Pages
508
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810867925
SKU
V9780810867925
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Daw-Ming Lee
Daw-Ming Lee is an award-winning filmmaker having directed The Suona Player and produced A Drifting Life and produced or directed nine feature-length documentaries and nearly 150 television documentary programs. He helped to establish the Graduate Institute of Filmmaking, the Graduate Institute of Arts and Technology, and the Department of Animation at Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan, ... Read more

Reviews for Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema
The Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema includes a chronology, list of acronyms and abbreviations, introduction, dictionary, and a topical bibliography. The Dictionary offers reliable counts of the country's film history with cross-references of the important directors, producers, performers, films, studios, and genres. The author is an award-winning filmmaker and film scholar as well as associate professor in the Department of ... Read more

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