New Hong Kong Cinema

Transitions to Becoming Chinese in 21st-Century East Asia
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-703-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 571 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cheung, Ruby

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Cheung, Ruby
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).