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Table of Contents

Introduction

Conclusion

Hypermap of Analysis

Authors' Biographies

Bibliography

Behind City of Sadness

Context I: History of Taiwan

Context II: The Taiwan New Cinema

Context III: The February 28 Incident

Context IV: The Controversy

Distant Analysis

STYLE: An Introduction

The Long Take and Neorealism

Aligning the Camera/Spectator Along an Axis

Geometricization of Space

Camera Movement

Delimitation of the Frame

Ellipsis (and the Long Take)/Control (and Freedom)

Long-Shot/Close-Up

Revelation of Spatial Relationships

Transitional Spaces

Shot/Reverse Shot

Repetition

Hou Hsiao-hsien Filmography

City of Sadness Credits

Sound/Writing/Photography

Sound (Requires free RealPlayer plugin)

Feminine Voice

Masculine Voice

Writing

Dialogism and the Feminine Voice

Pedagogical History and Personal Writing

Intertitles

Photography

Photograph I

Photograph II

Photograph III

Hou Hsiao-hsien Interviews

Interview I

Interview II

Violence: Seen and Unseen

soc.culture.taiwan Thread on 2.28

Ozu and Hou: Introduction

Critical Voices

Transitions

Low Angles

360 Degree Spaces

Self-Restraint

Graphic Matching and Actors

Nation and Industry

 

Critical Contents Copyright: Abe Mark Nornes and Yeh Yueh-yu, 1994 all rights reserved. Revised HTML and added VRML version: February 1998.