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Ara Osterweil

Ara Osterweil is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Muhlenberg College.

Remapping Hou Hsiao-Hsien

By Ara Osterweil

Long recognized as one of the leading figures of New Taiwan Cinema, Hou Hsiao-Hsien has been revered as the most important living filmmaker, accused of formalist tedium, and critiqued in his native Taiwan for his controversial “observational” approach to national history

Clutter has never signified so poetically as it does in <i>Flight of the Red Balloon</i> (2008), Hou’s first film made and set outside of Asia.
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