Erica Ka-yan Poon
Biographic Data
| ID | 8827074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erica Ka-yan Poon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erica Ka-yan |
| FAMILY NAME | Poon |
| SIGNATURE | POON E K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Worldly Desires
Review of: Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan , Brian Hu (2018) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 264 pp., ISBN 978-1-47442-845-3, h/bk, £75.00 ISBN 978-1-47442-846-0, p/bk, £19.99
Crafting a World-Class Brand
In the 1960s, Hong Kong-headquartered film studio Shaw Brothers was intent on boosting its profile on the international stage by carefully crafting a "worldclass" image. It also hoped to boost productivity and creativity with a new wave of films, for which it hired Japanese directors, cinematographers, and others above the line talent. Japan's Nikkatsu Studio, the home of "borderless action" pictures, supplied a ready-made source of stories, styl…
Lucilla You Min and Her Embodiment of a Cosmopolitan Fantasy
Lucilla You Min, who acted in Japanese and Hong Kong coproduced films in the early 1960s, is a valuable case study for postwar East Asian border-crossing star studies. This article conceptualizes the body of the star as a site of constructed meaning, and argues that You Min's embodiment of cosmopolitan fantasy as constructed by the studios she worked for was fraught with corporate and cultural competition in the Cold War era. The first part exami…
Southeast Asian Film Festival
Southeast Asian Film Festival (AFF), which commenced in 1954, was an annual event co-organized by Japanese and Southeast Asian film industries including Hong Kong, Singapore and the Philippines during the Cold War. Japanese film studio Daiei initiated AFF. Attempts to study AFF focus on the initiator, that is, Japanese cinema. This article contributes to the current scholarship by adding the participant, Hong Kong cinema. It examines the tensions…
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Lucilla You Min and Her Embodiment of a Cosmopolitan Fantasy
Lucilla You Min, who acted in Japanese and Hong Kong coproduced films in the early 1960s, is a valuable case study for postwar East Asian border-crossing star studies. This article conceptualizes the body of the star as a site of constructed meaning, and argues that You Min's embodiment of cosmopolitan fantasy as constructed by the studios she worked for was fraught with corporate and cultural competition in the Cold War era. The first part exami…
Southeast Asian Film Festival
Southeast Asian Film Festival (AFF), which commenced in 1954, was an annual event co-organized by Japanese and Southeast Asian film industries including Hong Kong, Singapore and the Philippines during the Cold War. Japanese film studio Daiei initiated AFF. Attempts to study AFF focus on the initiator, that is, Japanese cinema. This article contributes to the current scholarship by adding the participant, Hong Kong cinema. It examines the tensions…
Crafting a World-Class Brand
In the 1960s, Hong Kong-headquartered film studio Shaw Brothers was intent on boosting its profile on the international stage by carefully crafting a "worldclass" image. It also hoped to boost productivity and creativity with a new wave of films, for which it hired Japanese directors, cinematographers, and others above the line talent. Japan's Nikkatsu Studio, the home of "borderless action" pictures, supplied a ready-made source of stories, styl…
Worldly Desires
Review of: Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan , Brian Hu (2018) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 264 pp., ISBN 978-1-47442-845-3, h/bk, £75.00 ISBN 978-1-47442-846-0, p/bk, £19.99
Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Movie theater (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (2 works)