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TAIWAN CINEMA: YESTERDAY AND TODAY

  • Date:2016-04-13

It is our pleasure to announce the symposium and film screenings in cooperation with Columbia University and Taipei Cultural Center celebrating the release of An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies edited by Jim Cheng, James Wicks, and Sachie Noguchi.

4/21/2016

10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Columbia University, Butler Library, Room 203

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Film Screening: Banana Paradise / 香蕉天堂 (Wang Tong, 1989)

1:00 p.m | What Does the Taiwan New Cinema Movement Mean 30 Years Ago?

1:45 p.m. | Dire Straits: Representation of 1949 and Wang Tong’s Cinema

3:15 p.m.| Recent Taiwan Films: Currencies & Circulations

5:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. | Taipei Cultural Center

5:30 p.m. | Reception for the Book Release

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. | Film Screening: Buddha, Bless America / 太平天國 (Wu Nianzhen, 1996)

 

4/22/2016

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Columbia University, Butler Library, Room 203

Film Screening | Maverick / 菜鳥 (Chen Wen-tang, 2015)

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. | Taipei Cultural Center

Film Screening | 10 + 10 (Hou Hsiao-hsien and other 19 leading directors of Taiwan, 2011)

 

The book project An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies received support from the Fulbright Scholar Program; the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan; University of California, San Diego Libraries; and Columbia University Libraries, and was co-authored by Jim Cheng, Director of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University; James Wicks, Associate Professor of Literature and Film Studies, Point Loma Nazarene University; and Sachie Noguchi, Japanese Studies Librarian of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University.  This new publication is the most comprehensive and first multilingual bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies, including more than 2700 entries of monographs, theses, conference proceedings, and screenplays in 11 languages, and covering more than 100 years of related studies.