Law Kar, Frank Bren

Hong Kong Cinema

A Cross-Cultural View
Herausgeber: Bren, Frank; Kar, Law

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This cross cultural study of Hong Kong cinema looks at Eastern and Western influences upon the medium and examines its development compared to film industries of mainland China and Southeast Asia. The book spans the 20th century, focusing on a number of key elements, including the changing image of women and the rise of the martial arts film.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• ISBN-13: 9780810849860
• ISBN-10: 0810849860
• Artikelnr.: 13763137

Autorenporträt

Law Kar is a programmer for the Hong Kong Film Archive. He has been a film critic, editor, and writer for stage, film, and television. Frank Bren is the author of a history of Polish cinema as well as various studies of Chinese modern history and drama for several international publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Foreward Part 2 Acknowledgments Part 3 Introduction Part 4 Part 1:
East Meets West Chapter 5 1. Beyond the Peep Show: Movies Come to China
Chapter 6 2. Ben Brodsky's China Chapter 7 3. The Pioneers Chapter 8
4. From America with Love: "Making This Colony the 'Hollywood of China'"
Chapter 9 5. The Ester Eng Story Part 10 Part 2: North Meets South Chapter
11 6. Interflows between Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Guangzhou Chapter 12 7.
Wartime Mobilization Chapter 13 8. Postwar and Postliberation Transitions
Chapter 14 9. Into the Turbulent Sixties Part 15 Part 3: Border Crossings
Chapter 16 10. Local versus Foreign: The Mainland and Overseas Chapter 17
11. Expansion in Nanyang-Shaw Brothers versus Cathay Chapter 18 12. Early
Links with Asia Pacific Chapter 19 13. Further Foreign Collaborations Part
20 Part 4: Female Images Chapter 21 14. Songstress/Prostitute Chapter 22
15. Good Wife/Heroic Mother Chapter 23 16. Sweet Birds of Youth Chapter 24
17. The Majors Groom and the New Breed Chapter 25 18. Wild, Wicked, and
Sexy Part 26 Part 5: East versus West Chapter 27 19. The Modern Age Chapter
28 20. Finale Part 29 Appendixes Chapter 30 1. Early Film Exhibition in
Hong Kong and China Chapter 31 2. Some Early Hong Kong Film Venues Chapter
32 3. An Incomplete List of Early Film Production in Hong Kong and Mainland
China: 1896-1908 Chapter 33 4. Full Text of the Account of an Early Film
Show in Qi Garden, Published in Youxi Bao on September 5, 1897 Chapter 34
5. Benjamin Brodsky Filmography Chapter 35 6. Hong Kong Release Years of
California-Based Grandview's Feature Film Productions of 1941-1945 Chapter
36 7. Film Production in Hong Kong, 1957-1970 Chapter 37 8. Notes on Terms
and Names Part 38 Bibliography Part 39 Film Index Part 40 General Index
Part 41 Personal Names Index