Having largely given up on a career in film, Edward Yang had been working as a computer engineer for several years when he saw Herzog's "Aguirre, Wrath of God". Inspired to return to film, Yang, along with a handful of other filmmakers including the great Hou Hsiao_hsien, went on to found the Taiwanese New Wave of the early 1980s. Film critic John Anderson's, "Edward Yang" offers a comprehensive overview of the work of the writer-director - already considered one of the most important filmmakers of the past twenty years - from his breakthrough feature "That Day, on the Beach" to the epic "Yi-Yi".Rooted in questions about what it means to be Taiwanese, Yang's films reveal the complexity of life within the island's patchwork culture. Anderson identifies the key narrative strategies, formal devices, moral vision, and sociopolitical concerns shot through Yang's films. He explains what makes these films so distinctive by pinpointing the specific qualities of Yang's style and outlook. John Anderson is the chief film critic for "Newsday". He also writes for the "Los Angeles Times", "L.A. Weekly", "Film Comment", "Billboard", "Washington Post", "The Nation", and more. He is the author of the book "Sundancing: Hanging Out and Listening In at America's Most Important Film Festival". This is a volume in the "Contemporary Film Directors" series.
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Taiwanese director Edward Yang gained heightened U.S. visibility in 2000, in this case with his acclaimed family drama Yi Yi, which won him the best director prize at Cannes and which Anderson lauds as "a Taiwanese Ulysses in its all-encompassing context." Anderson offers a comprehensive, film-by-film examination of Yang's career, beginning with the short Expectations (1982) and paying particular attention to the novelistically complex intergenerational epic A Brighter Summer Day (1991), Yang's acknowledged masterpiece before Yi Yi. Anderson pursues a more literary than cinematic analysis, focusing on plotlines and characters rather than technique or style. Anderson on Yang is an accessible read. A lengthy interview with Yang, compiled from two conversations and various e-mails, is appended. Gordon Flagg
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- Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Mainland China by Tonglin Lu in Back Matter
- Time Out 1000 Films to Change Your Life (Time Out Guides) by Time Out on page 135
- Abel Ferrara (Contemporary Film Directors) by Nicole Brenez in Back Matter
- The X List: The National Society of Film Critics' Guide to the Movies That Turn Us On by Jami Bernard in Back Matter
- Pedro Almodovar (Contemporary Film Directors) by Marvin D'Lugo in Back Matter
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