"I always compare filmmaking to cooking. Shooting is like buying the groceries. You buy all kinds of ingredients and the better ingredients you get, the better chance you have of making the movie you want."--Ang Lee, from Speaking in Images Speaking in Images offers an engaging and rare collection of interviews with the directors who have changed the face of Chinese and intern...(展开全部)

白睿文（Berry,M.），1974年生于美国芝加哥，哥伦比亚大学现代中国文学与电影博士，也是留美汉学家王德威的学生，现任职于加州大学圣芭芭拉分校东亚系副教授，主要研究领域为当代华语文学、电影、流行文化和翻译学。著作除本书外，还有《痛史：现代中国文学界与电影的历史创伤》（即将出版）。中英译作有王安忆《长恨歌》、余华《活着》、叶兆言《一九三七年的爱情》、张大春《我妹妹》与《野孩子》，正在翻译舞鹤的《余生》。

楊德昌病逝侯孝賢感慨台灣新電影也走了，而本書，收入了楊德昌生前最後訪談。 《光影言語》是美國當代新秀學者對華人知名導演的精彩訪談實錄，主要訪談導演包括：謝晉、田壯壯、陳凱歌、張藝謀、張元、王小帥、賈樟柯、李楊、侯孝賢、朱天文、楊德昌、吳念真、李安、蔡明亮、張作驥、許鞍華、關錦鵬、陳果、陳可辛、陳耀成。 作者親自到台灣、大陸、香港，走訪每一位知名導演，面對面訪談，將每位導演的電影精華心血第一手報導出來，同時結合作者長年對電影與文學的深厚研究，呈現出前所未有的豐富電影文化內涵 本書同時邀請了美國名導演馬丁．史柯西斯（Martin Scorsese，1942年11月17日生於美國紐約市皇后區，美國電影導演，曾獲第79屆奧斯卡金像獎最佳導演。）作序。 ■本書目錄 目次 序／馬丁．史柯西斯 台灣版序 謝辭 前言：光影言語 中　國 謝　晉 電影創作六十年 田壯壯...(展开全部)

Taiwanese born, Ang Lee (b. 1954) has produced diverse films in his award-winning body of work. Sometimes working in the West, sometimes in the East, he creates films that defy easy categorization and continue to amaze audiences worldwide. Lee has won an Academy Award two times for Best Director―the first Asian to win―for films as different as a small drama about gay cowboys in...(展开全部)

With contributions by Bo Songnian, Jonathan Hay, David G. Johnson, Ni Yibin, Mei Mei Rado, and Wu Hung Writing in the early nineteenth century, the French traveler and cleric Abbé Huc exclaimed: “There is, perhaps, not a people in the world who carry so far their taste and passion for theatrical entertainments as the Chinese.” Although the spectacle of this theater is well kno...(展开全部)

This unusual and interesting book is a fascinating account of the world of Chinese writing. It examines Chinese space and the political and social use of writing as propaganda, a publicity booster and as a ladder for social climbing.

Speaking with the Angel : 12 completely new stories, narrated by 12 completely fabulous characters, written by 12 of the most celebrated voices in fiction today. Bestselling author Nick Hornby has brought together a star-studded group of writers to create this one-of-a-kind collection of first-person narratives. From the imaginations of Dave Eggers, Zadie Smith, Irvine Welsh...(展开全部)

Required reading for anyone interested in how style and the power of image dominate every aspect of our lives. A special millennium edition of the 1988 classic with a compelling new forward by the author. When All Consuming Images first appeared ten years ago, it quickly established itself as a classic in the field of American visual culture, with its textured histor...(展开全部)

Pioneer avant-garde filmmaker, poet and artist Jonas Mekas (born 1922) was the barometer of the New York art scene in the 1960s and ‘70s. His interviews with Andy Warhol, Stan Brakhage, Susan Sontag, John Cassavetes, Carolee Schneemann, Yvonne Rainer, Claes Oldenburg, Kenneth Anger and Michael Snow, among many other avant-garde artists and filmmakers for his weekly column in th...(展开全部)

As a traditional healing art that has established a contemporary global presence, Chinese medicine defies many categories and raises many interesting questions. If Chinese medicine is 'traditional,' why has it not disappeared with the rest of traditional Chinese society? If, as some claim, it is a science, what does that imply about what we call science? What is the secret to C...(展开全部)