Taiwan Female Directors Studying1957-2000

In every decade since the1957Taiwan female directors had constantfilm production available. Their movies were using the unique femaleperspective conform to the historical trend of the time, that embodypeople’s collective unconsciousness. The thesis study of Taiwan Womandirectors can be roughly divided into three periods:The ifrst period is around1950s，Chen Wen-Min is the first femaledirector in period of Taiwanese language movie in Taiwan film history.The revival of local culture atfer Taiwan terminating long history ofcolonial rule stimulated the development of the production of Taiwaneselanguage film. In the first Taiwanese iflm golden horse award in1957，Chen Wen-Min’s three movies eligible for the festival’s competition. Herworks were known to be Melodrama Films about gender issues.Then the second period is from1960s to early1980s，in the days ofmartial law there were much restrictions on creative freedom ofiflm-making. Wang Ying and Yang Chia-Yun have made the politicalpropaganda iflm. Cui Xiao-Ping and Liu Li-Li made commercial iflmsuch as romance literary movies. The female director were Affected bythe trend of the new Feminism thoughts of1970s and they startedreviewing social reality with their feminism angle and rethinking thechanging role of women in Taiwan society.The third period of female directors in Taiwan’s new wave is from 1980s to2000. Around the lifting of martial law, People are eager to therealization of democracy and democratic rights of free exercise. Thepolitical propaganda iflm got a cold reception，and the sowordsmen filmand romance literary movies also let the audience feel fatigue and tired.When Taiwan film fell into low tide period, young directors started toexplore other methods of representation. Wang Hsiao-Ti, Sylvia Changand Huang Yu-Shan had became an inlfuential presence on TaiwanTaiwanese New Film and they were important player of the new wavefilm. Their movies discussed gender issue and，social problem andhistorical theme reflected the feminine self-consciousness of them. Theypay attention to the living feeling of the individuals in modern civilizationand democratic society. The content and form of their cinema manifestednew aesthetic characteristics.The Thesis Research focus on Taiwan female directors in period of1957to2000, studying content and historical signiifcance at the differenttime. This paper applies the method of cultural study method, feminismstudy method，film history study method, iflm criticism study methodetc.