often assumes the role of producer of these films, such as for Fruit Chan's Made in Hong Kong (Hong Kong, 1997). Lau's wholehearted support for Hong Kong Cinema is indisputable. What these filmmakers show us is more than their success ...

Author: Ruby Cheung

Publisher: Berghahn Books

ISBN: 9781782387046

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 288

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The trajectory of Hong Kong films had been drastically affected long before the city’s official sovereignty transfer from the British to the Chinese in 1997. The change in course has become more visible in recent years as China has aggressively developed its national film industry and assumed the role of powerhouse in East Asia’s cinematic landscape. The author introduces the “Cinema of Transitions” to study the New Hong Kong Cinema and on- and off-screen life against this background. Using examples from the 1980s to the present, this book offers a fresh perspective on how Hong Kong-related Chinese-language films, filmmakers, audiences, and the workings of film business in East Asia have become major platforms on which “transitions” are negotiated.

Hong Kong Cinema: The Extra Dimensions. London: British Film Institute, 1997. Tobias, Mel. Memoirs of an Asian Moviegoer. Hong Kong: South China Morning Post, 1982. Tudor, Andrew. Theories of Film. New York: Viking, 1974.

Author: Pak Tong Cheuk

Publisher: Intellect Books

ISBN: 9781841501482

Category: Motion picture producers and directors

Page: 266

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The rise of 'New Wave' cinema in 1970s Hong Kong has had a significant cultural and economic impact on the film industry of China. This title presents a picture of the films made in this era and the complexity of issues they tackle such as East-West conflict, colonial politics, the struggle of women in a modernizing Asian city and identity crisis.

In the culturalrealm, around1980 theHongKong New Wave– alsoknown asthe New Hong Kong Cinema – rolled into sight, of which Tsui is a major progenitor. In hisbook Hong Kong:Culture andPolitics of Disappearance (1997)Ackbar Abbasobserves ...

Author: Gina Marchetti

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781134179169

Category: Performing Arts

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In recent years, with the establishment of the Hong Kong Film Archive and growing scholarly interest in the history of Hong Kong cinema, previously neglected historical documents and difficult-to-access films have offered new research materials. As Hong Kong film history comes into sharper focus, its inextricable links across the decades to Southeast Asia, Korea, Japan, the United States, and to the far reaches of the Chinese diaspora have also become more evident. Hong Kong’s connection with Hollywood involves ties that bring together art cinema and popular genres as well as film festivals and the media marketplace with popular transnational genres. Giving fresh and facsinating insights into the vibrant area of Hong Kong, this exciting new book links Hong Kong with world film culture both within and beyond the commercial Hollywood paradigm. It emphasizes Hong Kong film in relation to other cinema industries, including Hollywood, and demonstrates that Hong Kong film, throughout its history, has challenged, redefined, expanded, and exceeded its borders.

Ackbar Abbas , " The New Hong Kong Cinema and the Déjà Disparu , " Discourse 16.3 ( 1994 ) : 67 . 12. Anti - Japanese motifs appear in many 1970s Hong Kong movies set in different historical eras from the medieval era to the early ...

Author: Poshek Fu

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521776023

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 356

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This volume examines Hong Kong cinema in transnational, historical, and artistic contexts.

arts films), studios (Shaw Brothers), periods (pre- and post-1997 cinema), or single films (the New Hong Kong Cinema series from Hong Kong University Press). This volume moves in another direction by taking up the major theoretical ...

Author: Esther M. K. Cheung

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9781118883518

Category: Performing Arts

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A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema provides the firstcomprehensive scholarly exploration of this unique global cinema.By embracing the interdisciplinary approach of contemporary filmand cultural studies, this collection navigates theoretical debateswhile charting a new course for future research in Hong Kongfilm. Examines Hong Kong cinema within an interdisciplinary context,drawing connections between media, gender, and Asian studies,Asian regional studies, Chinese language and cultural studies,global studies, and critical theory Highlights the often contentious debates that shape currentthinking about film as a medium and its possible future Investigates how changing research on gender, the body, andsexual orientation alter the ways in which we analyze sexualdifference in Hong Kong cinema Charts how developments in theories of colonialism,postcolonialism, globalization, neoliberalism, Orientalism,and nationalism transform our understanding of the economics andpolitics of the Hong Kong film industry Explores how the concepts of diaspora, nostalgia, exile, andtrauma offer opportunities to rethink accepted ways ofunderstanding Hong Kong’s popular cinematic genres andstars

thermore, book-length studies of individual films are beginning to appear. A New Hong Kong Cinema Series began in 2003, published by Hong Kong University Press and providing in-depth analysis of individual contemporary Hong Kong films.

Author: Lisa Odham Stokes

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN: 9781538120620

Category: Performing Arts

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Hong Kong cinema began attracting international attention in the 1980s. By the early 1990s, Hong Kong had become "Hollywood East" as its film industry rose to first in the world in per capita production, was ranked second to the United States in the number of films it exported, and stood third in the world in the number of films produced per year behind the United States and India. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on directors, producers, writers, actors, films, film companies, genres, and terminology. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Hong Kong cinema.

But looking back at the seven-year “postcolonial” period, most Hong Kong people would agree that the new Hong Kong did not evolve as expected. Self-governance, which Hong Kong people yearned and fought for before 1997, ...

Author: Laikwan Pang

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

ISBN: 9789622097377

Category: Social Science

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This collection of exciting essays explores how the representations and the ideologies of masculinities can be productively studied in the context of Hong Kong cinema. It has two objectives: first, to investigate the multiple meanings and manifestations of masculinities in Hong Kong cinema that compliment and contradict each other. Second, to analyze the social and cultural environments that make these representations possible and problematic. Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema presents a comprehensive picture of how Hong Kong mainstream cinematic masculinities are produced within their own socio-cultural discourses, and how these masculinities are distributed, received, and transformed within the setting of the market place. This volume is divided into three interrelated parts: the local cinematic tradition; the transnational context and reverberations; and the larger production, reception, and mediation environments. The combination of these three perspectives will reveal the dynamics and tensions between the local and the transnational, between production and reception, and between text and context, in the gendered manifestations of Hong Kong cinema.

Electric Shadows (Guangying bingfen wushi nian), Hong Kong: Urban Council, pp.95–9. Lan, Qi (1988) 'Fanshou weiyun, ... Law, Kar (1984) 'Xianggang xin dianying de “Shaolin si”' (The 'Shaolin Temple' of the New Hong Kong Cinema).

Author: Yingchi Chu

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135786267

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 207

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Examining Hong Kong cinema from its inception in 1913 to the end of the colonial era, this work explains the key areas of production, market, film products and critical traditions. Hong Kong Cinema considers the different political formations of Hong Kong's culture as seen through the cinema, and deals with the historical, political, economic and cultural relations between Hong Kong cinema and other Chinese film industries on the mainland, as well as in Taiwan and South-East Asia. Discussion covers the concept of 'national cinema' in the context of Hong Kong's status as a quasi-nation with strong links to both the 'motherland' (China) and the 'coloniser' (Britain), and also argues that Hong Kong cinema is a national cinema only in an incomplete and ambiguous sense.

With a large scale of production and advanced technology, they once dominated Hong Kong's film market and outperformed Cantonese language movies that were typically about traditional moral lessons. But the 80s “Hong Kong New Wave” and ...

Author: Wai-man Lam

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351802253

Category: Social Science

Page: 180

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Hong Kong’s ‘Umbrella Revolution’ has been widely regarded as a watershed moment in the polity’s post-1997 history. While public protest has long been a routine part of Hong Kong’s political culture, the preparedness of large numbers of citizens to participate in civil disobedience represented a new moment for Hong Kong society, reflecting both a very high level of politicisation and a deteriorating relationship with Beijing. The transformative processes underpinning the dramatic events of autumn 2014 have a wide relevance to scholarly debates on Hong Kong, China and the changing contours of world politics today. This book provides an accessible entry point into the political and social cleavages that underpinned, and were expressed through, the Umbrella Movement. A key focus is the societal context and issues that have led to growth in a Hong Kong identity and how this became highly politically charged during the Umbrella Movement. It is widely recognised that political and ethnic identity has become a key cleavage in Hong Kong society. But there is little agreement amongst citizens about what it means to ‘be Hong Konger’ today or whether this identity is compatible or conflicting with ‘being Chinese’. The book locates these identity cleavages within their historical context and uses a range of theories to understand these processes, including theories of nationalism, social identity, ethnic conflict, nativism and cosmopolitanism. This theoretical plurality allows the reader to see the new localism in its full diversity and complexity and to reflect on the evolving nature of Hong Kong’s relationship with Mainland China.

More specifically, it addresses three important recurrent themes since the so-called 'golden age' of the New Hong Kong Cinema from the early 1980s to the early 1990s: nostalgia, memory, and the problematic of the 'local'.

Author: V. Lee

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9780230245433

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 254

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Taking as its point of departure the three recurrent themes of nostalgia, memory and local histories, this book is an attempt to map out a new poetics - the 'post-nostalgic imagination' - in Hong Kong cinema in the first decade of Chinese rule.