Of Ghosts and Gangsters

This article contends that ghosts and gangsters are not merely popular genres in the H ong K ong film industry; they are also legitimate participants in the film production process itself, influencing financial, creative, and logistical resources and decisions. Film personnel's accounts of the possession and protection of their bodies by members of the cosmological and criminal underworlds, particularly in location filming in graveyards and gangster turf as well as ritual payments and appeasements made to the underworlds, reveal the diverse risks and cultural practices in film production. This article argues that despite the rationalization of commercial filmmaking, “enchantments” in the form of religion and feudalistic crime linger within capitalist production

Art history · Business · Economics · Economy · Film industry · Filmmaking · Media studies · Movie theater · Payment · Political science · Possession (linguistics · Production (economics · Rationalization (economics · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Finance

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