This book uses the potent case study of contemporary Taiwanese queer romance films to address the question of how capitalism in Taiwan has privileged the film industry at the expense of the audience's freedom to choose and respond to culture on its own terms. Interweaving in-depth interviews with filmmakers, producers, marketers, and spectators, Ya-Fong Mon takes a biopolitical approach to the question, showing how the industry uses investments in techno-science, ancillary marketing, and media convergence to seduce and control the sensory experience of the audience-yet that control only extends so far: volatility remains a key component of the film-going experience.

Ya-Feng Mon holds a doctorate from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her background in film journalism has allowed her unique insights into the complex terrain of film production and consumption. Her recent research interests lie in various embodied experiences of technologies.

Acknowledgements 5Chapter OneThrough the Nexus of Bodies and Things: Introduction Chapter TwoMediated Knowledge: Methodology Chapter ThreeBodily Fantasy: Embodied Spectatorship and Object Intervention Chapter FourSensory Linkage: The Politics of Genre Film Making Chapter FiveIntimacy: Internet Marketing as Collaborative Production Chapter SixIndeterminacy: Control and the (Un)productive Body Chapter SevenMediation and Connections in a Precarious Age: Conclusion Bibliography Index Notes