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TAIWAN FILM DIRECTORS: A TREASURE ISLAND

TAIWAN FILM DIRECTORS: A TREASURE ISLAND Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh and Darrell William Davis New York: Columbia University Press, 2005, 296 pp.

Reviewed by Yu-Jyuan Jian

Through the study of selected directors and the investigation of social contexts in cultural reproduction, Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island explores how the concept of Taiwan is represented and reinvented on the cinematic screen. Early sixteenth-century Portuguese traders named Taiwan "Formosa," and ever since, the image of exotic beauty has been emblazoned in the cultural memory of Taiwan. As a "treasure island," Taiwan has also been an "island of greed," namely a desirable colony in the devouring gaze of its foreign ...

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