"This book brings together different cultures, infl uences and approaches in a mosaic of new viewpoints on Taiwan’s rich and unique cinematography: the authors invite the curious reader to discover representations of aborigines, landscapes, towns and the island’s legendary locations, to examine the meaning of national cinema, to explore new trends and rediscover the most well-known authors’ works, and to investigate the relationship between Formosa and the rest of Asia"--asiexpo.com Accompanying DVD contains 2 hours of interviews.