Past Masters, New Waves: Tsai Ming-liang / François Truffaut
Abstracts
The cinematic universe of Tsai Ming-liang gives us a chance to examine contemporary Taiwanese art cinema strategy: to re-appropriate, analyze, parody and reflect on its tradition, its legacy and its influence. His films are good examples of the contemporary complex relationships between international production and circulation and national authenticity. This article will discuss an easily recognizable form of appropriation and parody of prior cinema in Tsai’s work: in Ni nabian jidian? (What Time is it There?, 2001), which uses extracts of Quatre cents coups (François Truffaut, 1959) one of the first masterpieces of the French Nouvelle Vague of the 1960s. This apparently straightforward citation articulates its discourse in a complex reflection on the impact of the artistic heritage of the European cinema upon Taiwanese cinema, as well as a meditation on fathers and deceased ancestors.
References
Bibliographical reference
Corrado Neri, “Past Masters, New Waves: Tsai Ming-liang / François Truffaut”, Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本跨文化, 1 | 2006, 64-79.
Electronic reference
Corrado Neri, “Past Masters, New Waves: Tsai Ming-liang / François Truffaut”, Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本跨文化 [Online], 1 | 2006, Online since 13 September 2009, connection on 28 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/transtexts/183; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/transtexts.183
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