Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I Historicising Taiwan New Cinema
7. CHAPTER 1 The Rise of Taiwan New Cinema and the Festival Strategy 15
8. CHAPTER 2 Women Critics and Building the Auteur 38
9. Part II Filmmakers in Focus
10. CHAPTER 3 Going East: Women Walk the City in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Le Voyage du ballon rouge (2007) and Café Lumière (2003) 59
11. CHAPTER 4 Going West: Tsai Ming-liang at the Louvre and Cinema in the Gallery 87
12. CHAPTER 5 A Southbound Turn: Dreaming Taiwan in Midi Z’s Realist Films 106
13. CHAPTER 6 To the Future: Film Festivals as Producers and Sleeping in the Cinema 128
14. Postscript: An American Girl in Taiwan 149
15. Bibliography 153
16. Index 163