Screening Communities Negotiating Narratives of Empire, Nation, and the Cold War in Hong Kong Cinema / Jing Jing Chang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chang, Jing Jing, author.

Series:

Crossings (Hong Kong, China)

Crossings : Asian cinema and media culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Social aspects--China--Hong Kong--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--China--Hong Kong--History--20th century.

China--Hong Kong.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019

Summary:

Postwar Hong Kong cinema played an active role in building the colony's community in the 1950s and 1960s. To Jing Jing Chang, the screening of movies in postwar Hong Kong was a process of showing the filmmakers' visions for Hong Kong society and simultaneously an attempt to conceal their anxieties and mask their political agenda. It was a time when the city was a site of intense ideological struggles among the colonial government, Chinese Nationalists, and Communist sympathisers. The medium of film was recognised as a powerful tool for public persuasion and various camps competed to win over the hearts and minds of the audience. 'Screening Communities' thus situates the history of postwar Hong Kong cinema at the intersection of Cold War politics, Chinese culture, and local society.

Contents:

part 1. Toward a colonial modernity : from imperial legacy to colonial politics

Film censorship and the regulatory context of postwar Hong Kong

Between idealism and pragmatism : postwar Hong Kong's official film culture

part 2. Toward a leftist vernacular modernism : from the national to the familial

May fourth and postwar Hong Kong's leftist Cantonese cinema

Familial address and the aesthetics of lunli

part 3. Toward a gendered industrialized city : from a borderless to a localized place

The Nanyang ethos and engendering the Chinese overseas experience

Girls in masquerade : celebrity culture and fandom in 1960s Hong Kong youth film

Coda : the persistence of screening community in post-Cold War Hong Kong.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2019.

Includes filmography (pages 207-209), bibliographical references (pages [210]-222) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789888455621

9888455621

OCLC:

1097575890