Hong Kong Cinema

Coloniser, Motherland and Self

Bibliographic Data

ID19939152
AuthorsYingchi Chu (0000-0003-0696-8509, corresponding author)
Year2003
Publication date2003-08-29
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueHong Kong Cinema (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203222072
OpenAlexW4251295276
ISBN9780203222072
Open LibraryOL38781214M
LanguageEN
Citations received14

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

Art · Art history · Media studies · Movie theater · Sociology · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · china · Motion picture industry · Motion pictures

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