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The Shaw Screen
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Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China
A pathbreaking collection of essays on early Chinese-language cinema
Playing to the World's Biggest Audience
In this provocative analysis of screen industries in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, Michael Curtin delineates the globalizing pressures and opportunities that since the 1980s have dramatically transformed the terrain of Chinese film and television, including the end of the cold war, the rise of the World Trade Organization, the escalation of democracy movements, and the emergence of an East Asian youth culture. Reaching beyond national frameworks, Curtin examines the prospect of a global Chinese audience that will include more viewers than in the United States and Europe combined. He draws on in-depth interviews with a diverse array of media executives plus a wealth of historical m...
A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema
A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema provides the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of this unique global cinema. By embracing the interdisciplinary approach of contemporary film and cultural studies, this collection navigates theoretical debates while charting a new course for future research in Hong Kong film. 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 current thinking about film as a medium and its possible future Investigates how changing research on gende...
Hong Kong Dark Cinema
This book is a scholarly investigation of the historical development and contemporary transformation of film noir in today’s Hong Kong. Focusing on the evolvement of cinematic narratives, aesthetics, and techniques, the author balances a deep reading of the multiple filmic plots with a discussion of the cinematic portrayals of gender, romance, identities and power relations. Nuancing the prototypical cinematic form and tragic sense of classical film noir, the recent Hong Kong cinema turns around the classical generic role of film noir at the turn of the century to convey very different messages—joy, hope or love. This book examines how the mainstream cinema, or pre-and-post-Hong Kong cin...
The Glorious Modernity of Kong Ngee
Issued also in Chinese under title: Xian dai wan sui: Guang yi de du shi feng hua.
第廿八屆香港國際電影節
Film festival program for the 28th Hong Kong International Film Festival, held in Hong Kong from 6.4.2004 until 21.4.2004. The program contains information on the films that were shown, running times, cast, directorial and production members, language and a synopsis of the films.
國泰故事
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第廿七屆香港國際電影節
Film festival program for the 27th Hong Kong International Film Festival, held in Hong Kong from 8.4.2003 until 23.4.2003. The program contains information on the films that were shown, running times, cast, directorial and production members, language and a synopsis of the films.
