Ruby Cheung

New Hong Kong Cinema (eBook, PDF)

Transitions to Becoming Chinese in 21st-Century East Asia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The trajectory of Hong Kong films had been drastically affected long before the city's official sovereignty transfer from the British to the Chinese in 1997. The change in course has become more visible in recent years as China has aggressively developed its national film industry and assumed the role of powerhouse in East Asia's cinematic landscape. The author introduces the "Cinema of Transitions" to study the New Hong Kong Cinema and on- and off-screen life against this background. Using examples from the 1980s to the present, this book offers a fresh perspective on how Hong Kong-related Chinese-language films, filmmakers, audiences, and the workings of film business in East Asia have become major platforms on which "transitions" are negotiated.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782387046
• Artikelnr.: 44756734

Autorenporträt

Ruby Cheung is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. Her research and publications focus primarily on East Asian cinemas, in particular Hong Kong cinema and the mainstream film industries in the three major Chinese-speaking communities in Hong Kong, mainland China and Taiwan. She is the main editor of Cinemas, Identities and Beyond (2009), and co-editor of Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities (2010) and Film Festival Yearbook 3: Film Festivals and East Asia (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Romanization, Terminology and Information Source
Abbreviations
Introduction: The New Hong Kong Cinema, Cinema of Transitions and East Asia
Chapter 1. Cinematic Journeys and Journeying in New Hong Kong Films
Chapter 2. Outsider Characters: Chineseness, and Hong Kong Screen
Imagination and Imageries
Chapter 3. Hong Kong Filmmakers: Authorial Vision, Self-Inscription and
Social Underdogs
Chapter 4. Ethnic Chinese Film Audiences: The Red Cliff Experience in East
and Southeast Asia
Chapter 5. Film Policies and Transitional Politics: The Newest East Asian
Film Business Network
Conclusion
Appendix
Filmography
Bibliography
Index