Mahjong (1996): Rediscovering versions of the past and future along with the present 麻將：台北構圖的插值，弔詭的「離間」式「通俗劇」

  • Linda C.H. Lai (Speaker)

Activity: Talk/lecture or presentation › Talk/lecture

Description

a post-screening hour-long lecture as part of the "十年重見楊德昌 Edward Yang, 10th Anniversary" film course series organized by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society - Cine Fan. LInda Lai's lecture highlights the paradoxical use of melodrama conventions and Brechtian method of distanciation as the stratey of interpolating the psychic map of contemporary Taipei urban space.
Period2 Oct 2017
Event titleHK Cine Fan, HKIFF: Edward Yang, 10-year Commemoration: Mahjong
Event typeSeminar
LocationHong Kong, ChinaShow on map
Degree of RecognitionLocal

Keywords

  • Edward Yang
  • melodramatic conventions
  • Brechtian distanciation
  • Mahjong the film 1996
  • urban Taipei 1990s
  • post-marshall law Taiwan
  • cinema and society

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