BackEdward Yang
(book in English)
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- Director > Edward Yang
- Edward Yang
- Publishing Date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Collection
- Contemporary Film Directors
- Language
- English
Dimensions
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 144 pages • ? €
5.5 x 8.25 inches (14 x 21 cm) - ISBN-10
ISBN-13 - 0-252-07236-7
978-0-252-07236-9 - User Ratings
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Book Presentation:
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.
See the publisher website: University of Illinois Press
> On a related topic:
Le Cinéma d'Edward Yang (2010)
by Jean-Michel Frodon, Isabelle Wu Pei-Tsyr, Tony Rayns and Olivier Assayas
Subject: Director > Edward Yang
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