The other side of glamour : the left-wing studio network in Hong Kong cinema in the Cold War era and beyond / Vivian P. Y. Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Vivian P. Y., 1966- author.

Series:

Global film studios.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Global film studios

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 173 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Hong Kong cinema has been a pre-eminent form of local entertainment and a site of ideological contentions propelled by colonial, national and international politics at different historical junctures. The Other Side of Glamour is a study of the historical development of the left-wing film establishment in Hong Kong.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of figures

Acknowledgments

A note on the timeline

Timeline

Introduction

1 The left-wing film apparatus in postwar Hong Kong

2 Left in the right way: corporate strategy and the making of a popular left-wing

3 Remaking Cantonese film culture: Union and Sun Luen

4 Class, gender, and modern womanhood: Feng Huang and Great Wall

5 Corporate repositioning, transnational cultural brokerage, and soft power: Sil-Metropole

6 Critical transitions on the non-left: Patrick Lung and Cecile Tang

7 From political alibis to creative incubators: the left -wing film network since the 1980s

Epilogue

Bibliography

Filmography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Sep 2020).

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-8456-5

1-4744-2463-5

OCLC:

1312725968