The field of Taiwan cinema recently has witnessed a burst of new energy and talents, evidenced by a stream of books and collections of essays. However, few studies are devoted exclusively to Taiwan cinema. In June Yip's Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary (Durham, N.C.:Duke University Press, 2004); Chinese-Language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics, edited by Sheldon Lu and Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2005); Michael Curtin's Playing to the World's Biggest Audience: The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007); Tonglin Lu's Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Mainland China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007); and Chinese Films in Focus II, edited by Chris Berry (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), Taiwan cinema is studied in a comparative context of Chinese-language film, or treated as one of the art forms, among...
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