Images of Young Females in Taiwanese Films:Campus Romance and Cross-Cultural Teaching

• Main Authors: Kuo, Yu-Jung, 郭育蓉
• Other Authors: Chien, Ying-Ying
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/t3dhea

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 應用華語文學系 === 105 === The Taiwanese campus/teen romance film Our Times, released in the summer of 2015, grossed 400 million New Taiwan dollars within two months. This film received mostly positive critical reception in Asian countries and was also a high-grossing film in China with a total box office of 300 million RMB. Subsequently, Taiwanese campus/teen romance swept through Chinese communities in 2015. Taiwanese campus romance is not only popular among Taiwanese but has also gained fans throughout Asia since 2000. Prominent Taiwanese films in this genre include Blue Gate Crossing, Exit No. 6, Winds of September, and Eternal Summer. The two films with most success in both box office and reputation are You're The Apple Of My Eye (2011) and Our Times (2015). The Taiwanese film industry now has a well-established business model based on this type of pure romance. This research hopes to take advantage of the popularity of the Taiwanese campus romance genre by focusing on films with the strongest reputations. The young female images in these films will be analyzed from the viewpoints of gender study and feminism to note changes and differences from earlier works in Taiwan. This study will also compare them with recent American films of the same genre to evaluate similarities and differences between the two cultures. This paper will then discuss how these films portray femininity in Taiwanese culture. After the analysis, the research will use Our Time as the main teaching topic to establish new concepts of young female images in modern Taiwan while comparing this film with other Taiwanese and American films discussed in the first half of the research. The female-related social constructs found in Our Time will be the basis of the course design for cross-cultural teaching. With the introduction of Chinese culture as the foundation of the course, and cross-cultural teaching as the main method, Chinese learners from countries all over the world will improve their cross-cultural communication skills and gain a better understanding of Taiwanese culture and Taiwanese young women’s social status through cultural discussions, interaction, and cooperation with the teacher and classmates.