Once a Hero: The Vanishing Hong Kong Cinema - Softcover

Lam, Perry

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9789881500519: Once a Hero: The Vanishing Hong Kong Cinema

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9881500516 ISBN 13: 9789881500519

Publisher: East Slope Publishing Ltd. (Muse, Hong Kong), 2011

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In Once A Hero, his latest collection of essays, Lam describes the decline of Hong Kong cinema since 1997 and gives an eyewitness account of its attempt to reinvent itself. He examines successes and failures of its famous auteurs; spotlights talented newcomers; and, with the future of Hong Kong cinema now bound up with the mainland, discusses the works of major Chinese filmmakers.

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About the Author:

Perry Lam was among the first to critically examine Hong Kong movies in English on a regular basis, with reviews in the early 1980s for South China Morning Post. Widely quoted by the international press including Reuters, The Associated Press, Asiaweek and Cahiers du Cin�ma, he has long been recognized as an authority on Hong Kong cinema. He was editorial director of Muse magazine and taught Asian cinema as adjunct professor of Syracuse University Hong Kong Center. He is now assistant editorial director of Oxford University Press and writes columns in Chinese for Hong Kong Economic Journal and Yazhou Zhoukan. Once A Hero The Vanishing Hong Kong Cinema is his first English book.

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“The real story about Hong Kong films isn’t the dramatic decline in their creativity. It is the surgical removal of their distinctiveness as movies of Hong Kong. In their eagerness to please the mainland audience, Hong Kong filmmakers now churn out movies

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