Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Notes on Contributors xiii
6. Editorial Note on Languages xx
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I: Critical Intervention
9. 1. Don’t Call Me ‘Taiyupian’: Reflections on the Taiwanese Hokkien Cinema Era and Its Myths 19
10. Part II: Social Transformation
11. Chapter 2 Representations of Blindness in Taiyupian 43
12. 3. From Stage to Screen: The Emergence of Taiwanese Opera Films in Social History 60
13. 4. Taiyupian as Vernacular Modernism: Material Culture, Home Spaces and Taiwan as a Home 81
14. Part III: Industry and Aesthetics
15. Chapter 5 The Spirit of Yufeng: Lin Tuan-qiu’s Film Career and the Hushan Film Studio 105
16. Chapter 6 The Relationship between Actors and Industry in 1960s Taiwanese- Language Cinema 122
17. Chapter 7 Re-examining Vengeance of the Phoenix Sisters and Martial Arts Films: Genre Hybridity, Translocality and Cross-Nationality 156
18. Chapter 8 Musical Soundscapes in Taiyupian: Listening In on Composer Tseng Chungying and His Context 171
19. Chapter 9 Sound Legacies: Post-synchronised Sound and Echoes of Taiyupian in Pre-Dolby Taiwan Cinema 192
20. Part IV: Transnational Dimensions
21. Chapter 10 Translation and Transformation of Taiyupian: From Gothic Romance to ‘Family Complex’ 215
22. Chapter 11 Film Circulation and Mutual Influences between Hong Kong and Taiwan during the Cold War 232
23. Index 255