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This series is automatically populated with publications deposited by UC Riverside Department of Comparative Literature and Languages researchers in accordance with the University of California’s open access policies. For more information see Open Access Policy Deposits and the UC Publication Management System.


Cover page of Validating the Two-Factor Model of the Gambling Functional Assessment - Revised in a Mainland Chinese sample

Validating the Two-Factor Model of the Gambling Functional Assessment - Revised in a Mainland Chinese sample

(2023)
Cover page of The absent father of Sino-French cinema: contemporary Taiwanese cinema and 1950s French auteurs

The absent father of Sino-French cinema: contemporary Taiwanese cinema and 1950s French auteurs

(2014)

In contemporary Sino-French cinema, father characters who are dead, long lost or geographically distant leave gaping holes in the lives of the offspring left behind. The absent fathers in Sino-French films by Taiwanese auteurs Cheng Yu-chieh, Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang serve as metaphors for French auteurs. French New Wave films constitute the majority of the intertexts; however, early 1950s French cinema and even late nineteenth-century painting reflect the expansiveness of French influence. Despite the possibility of an orientalist dynamic, Taiwanese auteurs not only pay homage to their French 'fathers', and especially New Waver Franc¸ois Truffaut, but also strike out on their own, contributing innovative work to contemporary transnational cinemas.

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