Hong kongs eguidebooks offer unique and insightful tips on the citys history, cultural attractions, shopping and dining venues, outdoor activities and more. Far more than a simple collection of movie locations, this book delivers a rare glimpse into the history of film production practices in hong kong. The book explores hong kong as a place with a unique identity, yet also a crossroads where chinese history, british colonial history, and world history intersect. Hong kong horror cinema edinburgh university press. History of hong kong lonely planet travel information.
However, most of them are nonscholarly works, including ye. It includes studies of the films of king hu, bruce lee and jackie chan. If this is indeed the case, then hong kong can claim to be the birthplace of chinese dramatic movies. This book explores the proposition that hong kong cinema since the 1960s has. Hong kong nostalgia cinema and its social practice 252 natalia chan sui hung 12. Best fiction and nonfiction books, novels and memoirs that take place primarily in the city of hong kong. The region of hong kong has been inhabited since the old stone age, later becoming part of the chinese empire with its loose incorporation into the qin dynasty 221206 bc. The poetics of chinese cinema gary bettinson palgrave. Ancient history remnants of burial grounds and early rock carvings show human life in hong kong as far back as the stone age.
On top of that, he has generously been sharing his passion for hong kong and asian. Chapter one an overview of hong kongs new wave cinema. I believe it was published in 1988, in renditions, a literary magazine published by the research centre for translation rct at the chinese university of hong kong. Known as big mike, brit mike leeder has been living the life in hong kong since 1990. The cinema of hong kong examines one of the most popular and dynamic cinema traditions in the history of film. Masculinities and hong kong cinema hong kong university.
Early film culture in hong kong, taiwan, and republican china jstor. Providing an overview of major directors, genres, and stars, from its origins to the present, this volume examines hong kong cinema in historical, transnational, cultural, and political contexts. The cinema of hong kong examines one of the most popular, dynamic, and important cinema traditions in the history of film. This first part of the series is going to focus on a wide span of time where a lot was going on in hong kongs growing movie business, and the region. A brief history of hong kong cinema to 1988 film studios. Marginal culture, and hong kong cinema 19371941 199 poshek fu 10. Hong kong metamorphosis, denis bray, nov 1, 2001, political science, 264 pages. As a former british colony, hong kong had a greater degree of political and economic freedom than mainland china and taiwan, and developed into a filmmaking hub for the chinesespeaking world. American cinema in the age of watergate and vietnam, 197079, volume 9 in scribners history of american cinema series. America in the world film market 19071934 pdf online. A modern history of hong kong, steve tsang, aug 15, 2007, history, 340 pages. Additionally, i owe my first viewing of the sister flowers from the south 1939, hong kong a key film in chapter 2 to the generous staff at. Planet hong kong by david bordwell 299page pdf, 11. The routledge companion to new cinema history presents the most recent approaches and methods in the study of the social experience of cinema, from its origins in vaudeville and traveling exhibitions to the multiplexes of today exploring its history from the perspective of the cinemagoer, the study of new cinema history examines the circulation and.
Martinjones provides a profound and original reassessment of gilles deleuzes own concepts of style and history in modern cinema. Early film culture in hong kong, taiwan, and republican china. As for books written in chinese on the history of taiwan cinema, only a handful are available. Hong kong cinema of the 1970s is the seventh volume in the oral history series, following an emerging modernity. Paul fonoroff, well known hong kong film critic and historian, wrote, a brief history of hong kong cinema. Beyond 1997 217 chronology of key events 239 bibliography and further reading. The copy of the article i link below comes from the cuhk library. The chinese cinema book provides an essential guide to the cinemas of the peoples republic of china, hong kong, taiwan and the chinese diaspora, from early cinema to the present day.
With contributions from leading international scholars, the book is structured around five thematic sections. His current book project concerns the improbable, parallel rise of taiwan and iran in the international festival world starting in the mid1980s. The next chapter, once upon a time in the west, traces how hong kong film attracted fans and festival prestige. Chromatic cinema provides the first wideranging historical overview of screen color, exploring. At the same time, the book goes beyond deleuze, indeed displaces his thought onto new territories. A companion to hong kong cinema wiley online books. He has published extensively on asian cinema including the booklength monograph, no man an island.
From rethinking hong kong cinema to rewriting chinese film history pages. The annual exhibition at the city hall organised by the hong kong publishing federation could be regarded as the predecessor of the hong kong book fair. The hong kong film archive building is a worldclass facility. Individual essays focus on hong kong cinema before and during world war ii. Hong kong cinema was born long before the stardom of bruce lee and jackie chan, or the arthouse films of wong karwai and ann hui. Score a books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. John carrolls engrossing and accessible narrative explores the remarkable history of hong kong from the early 1800s through the post1997 handover, when this former colony became a special administrative region of the. Emergence, development and decline 103 stephen teo part four the newwaves 12. A concise history of hong kong, 2007, 270 pages, john mark.
Location shoots in hong kong have preserved many disappearing landmarks of the city, and the resulting films function as valuable and irreplaceable archives of the citys evolution. History, arts, identity, edited by poshek fu and david desser. Uploaded by associateangeladugas on november 9, 2012. Covering a period from 1909 to the end of hong kong cinema in the present day, this book features information about the films, the studios and the personalities that have shaped this kind of cinema. Carroll concludes by exploring the legacies of colonial rule, the consequences of hong kongs reintegration with china, and significant developments and challenges since 1997. Most parts of this the history of hong kong action cinema series will be broken into decades. Fivestorey high, its net floor area of 7,200 square meters is structurally divided into two big partitions. A companion to hong kong cinema provides the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of this unique global cinema. The combination of these three perspectives will reveal the dynamics and tensions between the local and the transnational, between production and reception, and between text and context, in the gendered manifestations of hong kong cinema. Wonderfully comprehensive critical analysis of hong kong cinema, from 1909 through 1997, although the book focuses primarily on the postwar period. Chapter 3 provides a condensed history of hong kong filmmaking up to 1997. A catalog record for this book is available from the british library.
And, as you explore the citys colourful heritage, youll discover stories of powerful clans. This is the second anthology on hong kong cinema to appear recently. Teo addresses the general lack of proper critical and historical perspective of hong kong cinema, and he. Motion pictures china hong kong, adventure films china hong kong history and criticism, handtohand fighting, oriental, in motion pictures publisher overlook press collection. Instead, the story of hong kong s film industry begins back in the early 20th century. Bringing gender analysis to bear on the themes, industrial structures and reception of hong kong cinema, this indispensable reading for students and fans of hong kong films also models a new approach to the study of gender and popularity in a global entertainment. History, arts, identity cambridge university press, 2000.
Theres a guidebook for just about everything and everyone. Through interviews with film veterans, this volume strives to bear witness to industry development in. Book fair retrospective hktdc hong kong book fair 2020. Historical dictionaries of literature and the arts, no. Looking beyond relatively wellstudied cities like shanghai, these essays foreground cinemas relationship with imperialism and colonialism and emphasize the rapid development of cinema as a sociocultural institution. The cinema of hou hsiaohsien hong kong university press.
Hong kong horror cinema is the first englishlanguage study of this delirious and captivating cinematic tradition, offering new insights into the history of hong kong horror through case studies of classic films and through a detailed consideration of their aesthetic power, economic significance, and cultural impact in both the global and. History in the very long scale of history, hong kong as we know it today has existed for a mere blink of an eye. Read on to follow the developments of the first era of hong kong cinema up until the 1970s. Pdf since the 1960s, hong kong cinema has helped to shape one of the. This volume features new work on cinema in early twentiethcentury hong kong, taiwan, and republican china. By embracing the interdisciplinary approach of contemporary film and cultural studies, this collection navigates theoretical debates while charting a new course for future research in hong kong film. In recent years, with the establishment of the hong kong film archive and growing scholarly interest in the history of hong kong cinema, previously neglected historical documents and difficulttoaccess films have offered new research materials. This year will see the publication of his book, lost illusions. Pdf world film locations hong kong download full pdf.
Urban cinema and the cultural identity of hong kong 227 leung pingkwan 11. However, the history of the more than 1,100 square kilometres that hong kong now occupies predates the events of the qing dynasty by more than a thousand years. This sparkling collection shatters the idea that masculinity in commercial films is a simple and singular force. Academy, ainling wong at the hong kong film archive, and erin lee at cathay organization i owe the material basis of this book. Providing an overview of major directors, genres, and stars, from its origins to the present, this volume examines hong kong cinema in historical, transnational, cultural and political contexts. Starting out as a farming fishing village and salt production site, it became an important free port and eventually a major international financial centre the qing dynasty ceded hong kong to the british empire.
A concise history of hong kong hong kong university press. This major history of hong kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. It is focused around the horoscope animal, theme, and other attributes for the upcoming year, taking these new year. View table of contents for a companion to hong kong cinema. The following interlude,two dragons, talks about bruce lee and jackie chan, the two most famous hong kong heroes. Providing an overview of major directors, genres and stars, from its origins to the present, this volume examines hong kong cinema in. Try searching on jstor for other items related to this book. In 19, brosky cofounded hong kongs first film studio. One side of the building is dedicated to storage, which has independent air conditioning system with dehumidification and acidic gaseous removal functions. But there was a lot going on in the region before that wintry morning in 1841 when a contingent of british marines clambered ashore and planted the union flag on the western part of hong kong island, claiming it for the british crown. The fair has become an annual major event in hong kong with the number of visitors reaching new high every year. Taiwan new cinema and its legacy 122 tonglin lu 14. The book touches on most of the important aspects of color cinemafrom history to technology to ideologyand serves as an orientation course for a complex subject.