Early film culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China : kaleidoscopic histories / edited by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yeh, Emilie Yueh-yu.

Contributor:

Yeh, Emilie Yueh-yu, editor.

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--China--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--China--Hong Kong--History.

Motion pictures--Taiwan--History.

Motion picture industry--China--History.

Motion picture industry.

Motion picture industry--China--Hong Kong--History.

Motion picture industry--Taiwan--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2018]

Summary:

This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground cinema's relationship with imperialism and colonialism and emphasize the rapid development of cinema as a sociocultural institution. These essays examine where films were screened; how cinema-going as a social activity adapted from and integrated with existing social norms and practices; the extent to which Cantonese opera and other regional performance traditions were models for the development of cinematic conventions; the role foreign films played in the development of cinema as an industry in the Republican era; and much more.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I. Revising historiography : early film culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Guangzhou

1. Translating Yingxi : Chinese film genealogy and early cinema in Hong Kong

2. Magic lantern shows and screen modernity in colonial Taiwan

3. From an imported novelty to an indigenized practices : Hong Kong cinema in the 1920s

4. Enlightenment, propaganda, and image creation : a descriptive analysis of the usage of film by the Taiwan education society and the colonial government before 1937

5. 'Guangzhou Film' and Guangzhou urban culture

6. The way of the Platinum Dragon : Xue Juexian and the sound of politics in 1930s Cantonese cinema

Part II. Intermediaries, cinephiles, and film literati

7. Toward the opposite side of 'vulgarity' the birth of cinema as a 'healthful entertainment' and the Shanghai YMCA

8. Movie matchmakers : the intermediatries between Hollywood and China in the early twentieth century

9. The silver star group : a first attempt at theorizing wenyi in the 1920s

10. Forming the movie field : film literati in Republican China

11. Rhythmic movement, metaphoric sound, and transcultural transmediality : Liu Na'ou and The man who has a camera (1933)

Chinese and Japanese glossary.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

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ISBN:

0-472-90102-8

0-472-12344-0

OCLC:

1023628201

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access