Hong Kong

Changing Geographies of a Media Capital

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ID5904684
AuthorsAnthony May (0000-0001-7288-4990, Anthony May is a Lecturer in the School of Arts, Media and Culture at Griffith University, where he teaches writing.), Xiaolu Ma (0000-0003-1208-198X, XiaoLu Ma is a doctoral student at Griffith University, working on a documentary about the Cultural Revolution.)
Year2007
Volume124
Issue1
Pages156-165
Publication date2007-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedia International Australia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1329-878X • E-ISSN: 2200-467X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1329878x0712400115
OpenAlexW86134018
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited2

Thanks to its stunning entry into the ranks of world cinema in the 1970s, the history of the Hong Kong film industry up to 1997 is relatively well known. However, the coincidence of the Asian economic recession and the city's reintegration into the People's Republic of China (PRC) has worked to obscure recent developments. This article analyses contemporary Hong Kong cinema and its relations with the government of the mainland. We argue that the economic, cultural and geopolitical location of the city is contributing to developments that will allow the art cinema of the People's Republic of China to engage in international, Hollywood-dominated markets. Matters to do with production investment, censorship and film exhibition business are analysed in terms of the development of and revisions to the Closer Economic Partnership arrangement that now governs trade between the PRC and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR

Art history · Censorship · China · Economics · Economy · Exhibition · Film industry · Geography · Geopolitics · Hollywood · Mainland China · Media studies · Movie theater · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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