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We have all come to admire the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien.
We appreciate the work of Edward Yang, Ang Lee and others. In today's male-dominated
world, women have a much harder time and need to be twice as good as men
in order to be recognized. Undoubtedly, in a "market economy," this has
an effect on intake when they have completed a film, and on their ability
to finance new productions.
 Huang Yu-Shan
Huang Yu-shan has been called "the most underrated filmmaker"
working in Taiwan today. Despite noteworthy films like Autumn
Tempest, Spring Cactus, The Song of Cha-tian Mountain, The Forgotten and
South[ern]
Night that have been shown during film fests in France, the U.S.,
South Africa, Korea and Germany, many critics and cinema lovers haven't
discovered her work. A feminist filmmaker in a certain sense, she has championed
women's rights and the rights of gays and lesbians. Has it caused skepticism
and contributed to an erroneous, or at least one-sided "classification"?
Her horizon is wider than that, and socio-cultural issues, including a
long-standing insistance on the cultural specificity of the South Taiwanese
heritage and a love of the Chinese motherland have influenced her artistic
creation as a Chinese filmmaker and writer again and again.
It is time to discover a filmic oeuvre informed by the
aesthetic sensibilility and the sense of justice of a quiet, sensitive
and yet rebellious woman working in a part of the global South which is
struggling to free itself from patriarchical values, cultural imperialism,
hegemonism, commodification, and various forms of exploitation of man by
man!
http://www.art-in-society/AS12/ASissue12.html
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Links:
the filmmaker's
blog
http://yushan133.pixnet.net/
Mary Ann Doane,
THE FEMALE FACE, THE CITYSCAPE, AND MODERNITY IN A TRANSCULTURAL
CONTEXT
http://yushan133.pixnet.net/blog/post/26423637
short
filmography
filmography
(in Chinese)
...more
links...
Contemporary Taiwanese
Film Studies
( ISBN
9787504355003 )
[Chinese language
publication]
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