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Motion Pictures and the Image of the City

A Documentary Interpretation

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Xiaofei Hao

    1. School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

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  • A work in film studies

Part of the book series: Film und Bewegtbild in Kultur und Gesellschaft (BKG)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Xiaofei Hao
    Pages 19-29

  3. Theory, literature and methodology

    • Xiaofei Hao
    Pages 31-76

  4. Yi Yi: Nostalgia upon diaspora

    • Xiaofei Hao
    Pages 77-132

  5. Au Revoir Taipei: Tourist view on the space of empathy

    • Xiaofei Hao
    Pages 133-203

  6. City, film and destination: Comparative analysis on the image of the city between Yi Yi and Au Revoir Taipei

    • Xiaofei Hao
    Pages 205-228

  7. Conclusions and discussion

    • Xiaofei Hao
    Pages 229-241

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 243-244
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About this book

If you’ve ever had a special attachment to a film, and also an attachment to the city it was shot in, Xiaofei Haos book will give you a fresh eye on how the city is expressed in the film by the filmmaker. From the perspective of social science, each face of the city in a film comes from a choice – shown only on the basis of the filmmakers’ selection criteria. In this process, the film becomes the cognitive map of that city. The interweaving of the city space and film language will be elaborated first from the perspective of urban studies. Then some viewpoints of tourism studies will be provided to explore the relation between the image of the city in the film and in reality. Two films about the city Taipei are looked at as case studies: A One and a Two (Yi Yi, Director Edward Yang, 2000) and Au Revoir Taipei (Director Arvin Chen, 2010).

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

    Xiaofei Hao

About the author

Ph.D Xiaofei Hao is a Lecturer at the Department of Event Management, School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-sen University, China. Her research interests include film language interpretation, film tourism, and visual culture.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Motion Pictures and the Image of the City

  • Book Subtitle: A Documentary Interpretation

  • Authors: Xiaofei Hao

  • Series Title: Film und Bewegtbild in Kultur und Gesellschaft

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-14340-4

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-14339-8Published: 09 June 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-14340-4Published: 03 June 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2524-3020

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-3039

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 226

  • Number of Illustrations: 93 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, Human Geography

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