Martin-Jones, D. (2014) Branded city living: Taipei becoming-Paris in Yi ye Taibei/Au Revoir Taipei (2010). Asian Cinema, 25(1), pp. 15-31. (doi: 10.1386/ac.25.1.15_1)
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Abstract
This article analyses Yi ye Taibei/Au Revoir Taipei (Chen, 2010). Due to its status as a co-production (with talent drawn from across borders, its various international funding sources and its deliberate appeal to global audiences through the festival circuit), the film is seen to provide a transnational perspective on Taipei. In this the film’s relationship with a film tourism agenda, a branding process pursued by the Taipei authorities, is stressed. Au Revoir Taipei’s consideration of life in Taipei, as a ‘branded city’, is analysed in terms of its three becomings (becoming-Paris, becoming-imperceptible, becoming-dance), in relation to Gilles Deleuze’s idea of the time-image (a striking example of which concludes the film) and it’s intertextual referencing of several ‘world’ or ‘art’ cinema classics, including Jean-Luc Godard’s Bande à Part (1964). The film’s transnational view of life in the branded city is thus understood to emerge at the conjunction of global production and distribution realities for film-making, and contemporary work and lifestyle opportunities in Taipei, the convergence of which create a cinematic construction of Taipei city that can be deciphered using Deleuze’s concepts.
Item Type: | Articles |
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Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Martin-Jones, Professor David |
Authors: | Martin-Jones, D. |
College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Culture and Creative Arts > Theatre Film and TV Studies |
Journal Name: | Asian Cinema |
Publisher: | Asian Cinema Studies Society/Intellect |
ISSN: | 1059-440X |
ISSN (Online): | 2049-6710 |
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2014 Asian Cinema Studies Society/Intellect |
First Published: | First published in Asian Cinema 25(1):15-31 |
Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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