Date: Friday, 21 January 2022
Time: 9:00am – 12:40pm (GMT +8)

Panel 1: Guoyu Pian
Time: 9:00am-10:40am (Taipei time)
Chair: Hong Guo-Juin

  • Hsi Shih: The Beauty of Beauties (1965): The Grand Mirage of Taiwanese Cinema/ James Udden 
  • Victory (1974): Symbolic Analysis of the Film in Three Parts/ James Wicks
  • Legend of the Mountain (1979): Rediscovering King Hu’s Land of Wayward Ghosts/ Michael Berry

Panel 2: Taiyu Pian 
Time: 11:00am-12:40pm (Taipei time)
Chair: Wenchi Lin

  • The Best Secret Agent (1964): The First Female Spy Hero of Taiyu pian/ Chunchi Wang
  • The Bride Who Has Returned from Hel (1965): Cosmopolitan Vernacularism/ Ping-hui Liao
  • Dangerous Youth (1969): Sexual Economy, Taiyu Films and Bricolage/ Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh

This Webinar is held as part of the International Symposium on Taiwan Cinema 台灣電影線上國際研討會.

The International Symposium on Taiwan Cinema, organized by the Visual Culture Research Center at National Central University and the Centre for Film, Taiwan and Creative Industry at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, will proceed as a series of webinars on Zoom to be held from December, 2021 to April, 2022, in which contributing authors of the book 32 NEW TAKES ON TAIWAN CINEMA to be published by The Michigan University Press will be invited to present key points in their chapters. For more information please visit the facebook fan page: https://www.facebook.com/NCUVisual.

The symposium is co-organized by:
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
The Department of Filmmaking at Taipei National University of the Arts
Institut d’Etudes Transtextuelles et Transculturelles at Université de Lyon (Jean Moulin)
The Center for Taiwan Studies at University of California Santa Barbara
Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures, The University of Hong Kong

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