New Hong Kong Cinema (Paperback)

Ruby Cheung

ISBN 10: 1785337610 / ISBN 13: 9781785337611

Published by Berghahn Books, Oxford, 2018

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Paperback. The trajectory of Hong Kong films had been drastically affected long before the citys official sovereignty transfer from the British to the Chinese in 1997. The change in course has become more visible in recent years as China has aggressively developed its national film industry and assumed the role of powerhouse in East Asias cinematic landscape. The author introduces the Cinema of Transitions to study the New Hong Kong Cinema and on- and off-screen life against this background. Using examples from the 1980s to the present, this book offers a fresh perspective on how Hong Kong-related Chinese-language films, filmmakers, audiences, and the workings of film business in East Asia have become major platforms on which transitions are negotiated. The trajectory of Hong Kong films had been drastically affected long before the city's official sovereignty transfer from the British to the Chinese in 1997. The author introduces the "Cinema of Transitions," using examples from the 1980s to the present, to study New Hong Kong Cinema and on- and off-screen life against this background. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Hong Kong Cinema (Paperback)
• Publisher: Berghahn Books, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785337610
• ISBN 13: 9781785337611
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The trajectory of Hong Kong films had been drastically affected long before the city’s official sovereignty transfer from the British to the Chinese in 1997. The change in course has become more visible in recent years as China has aggressively developed its national film industry and assumed the role of powerhouse in East Asia’s cinematic landscape. The author introduces the “Cinema of Transitions” to study the New Hong Kong Cinema and on- and off-screen life against this background. Using examples from the 1980s to the present, this book offers a fresh perspective on how Hong Kong-related Chinese-language films, filmmakers, audiences, and the workings of film business in East Asia have become major platforms on which “transitions” are negotiated.

About the Author

Ruby Cheung is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. Her research and publications focus primarily on East Asian cinemas, in particular Hong Kong cinema and the mainstream film industries in the three major Chinese-speaking communities in Hong Kong, mainland China and Taiwan. She is the main editor of Cinemas, Identities and Beyond (2009), and co-editor of Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities (2010) and Film Festival Yearbook 3: Film Festivals and East Asia (2011).