Love Letters from the Colonizer: The Cultural Identity Issue in Cape No.7

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Beteiligte: Wang, Ying-bei
In: Asian Cinema, 20, 2009, 2, S. 260-271
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Intellect
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Umfang: 260-271
ISSN: 1059-440X
2049-6710
DOI: 10.1386/ac.20.2.260_1
veröffentlicht in: Asian Cinema
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: Intellect (CrossRef)
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<jats:p>My trip back to Taiwan near the end of 2008 was full of surprises caused by my observation that the whole country had been in a mania for Cape No.7, a locally made film released in August 2008 that obtained a tremendous success in the following months. The film was very frequently mentioned in local news reports and in people’s conversation and had gone on to be so successful that famous TV programs held interviews with the director and crew, variety shows invited the actors to do performances, and commercials made parodies of some pieces in the film. And also, a large number of tourists poured into Hengchun town to visit the sites where the film took shots. Numerous objects seen in the film, such as props, costume, houses, settings, landscape, became popular commercial items. It seemed that everybody was celebrating the birth of this most popular Taiwanese film of all time, Cape No.7.</jats:p>