The Colonial Screen: Early Cinema in Hong Kong

Hong Kong is known as an entrepôt in its colonial history, but its place in early cinema has not received the same scholarly attention. The Colonial Screen: Early Cinema in Hong Kong explores the exhibition, regulation, circulation, reception, and social place of motion pictures, from the time the cinematograph, an early mechanism for motion pictures, first arrived in the territory in 1897 through to the late 1920s when Hong Kong emerged as a film entrepôt in South China. Drawing on concepts of screen practice, dispositif (deployment, apparatus), kinematography (motion pictures before cinema), and entrepôt, author Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh presents an unknown history of early film in Hong Kong. She traces the transition from film exhibition as a tie-in with staged entertainment to a full-fledged attraction of its own, acquiring a niche position in local society, and explores the roles of showmen, technologies, regulation, movie theatres, and entertainers. In each chapter, she brings to light the historical significance of Hong Kong as a regional node in movie trade routes and how racial politics and commerce were behind the British "rule of law" in making film regulations. Yeh locates the reception of motion pictures in the time of colonial modernity and governance, unveiling how, despite the dominance of European entrepreneurs in the exhibition circuit, the rise of Hong Kong Amusements in the early 1920s shaped a localized film practice. Ultimately, The Colonial Screen adds an important frame to Hong Kong as a film entrepôt across multiple borders and different regions in China in the early twentieth century.

Humor & Entertainment

Yeh, Emilie Yueh-yu

Movies

Oxford University Press

Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island (Film and Culture Series)

Focusing on the work of four contemporary filmmakers―Ang Lee, Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang―the authors explore how these filmmakers broke from tradition, creating a cinema that is both personal and insistent on examining Taiwan's complex history. Featuring stills, anecdotes, and close readings of films, the authors consider the influence of Hong Kong and martial arts films, directors' experiments with autobiography, the shifting fortunes of the Taiwanese film industry, and Taiwan cinema in the context of international cinema's aesthetics and business practices.

Davis, Darrell William

Columbia University Press

Focusing on the work of four contemporary filmmakers―Ang Lee, Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang―the authors explore how these filmmakers broke from tradition, creating a cinema that is both personal and insistent on examining Taiwan's complex history. Featuring stills, anecdotes, and close readings of films, the authors consider the influence of Hong Kong and martial arts films, directors' experiments with autobiography, the shifting fortunes of the Taiwanese film industry, and Taiwan cinema in the context of international cinema's aesthetics and business practices.

In Staging Memories, authors Abé Mark Nornes and Emilie Yeh present an updated study of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s landmark contributions to Taiwanese and world cinema, with particular emphasis on A City of Sadness (Beiqing Chengshi), the winner of the Golden Lion award at the 1989 Venice Film Festival. Staging Memories is based on Narrating National Sadness, one of the first hypertext analyses in film studies, and its analysis is couched in a general history of Taiwan, the political massacre that A City of Sadness recreates, and the history of Taiwan New Cinema. This background information is crucial context for viewers, and one of the reasons teachers have long valued the hypertext version of the book. The body of the text analyzes Hou's style, representation of violence, and the complex manner in which he renders history in his oblique long-take style. The book ends with a chapter that examines a single sequence that unifies the various threads of the overall analysis.

Staging Memories: Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness

Politics & Social Sciences

Nornes, Abé Markus Markus

Social Sciences

Maize Books

East Asian Screen Industries is a guide to the film industries of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the PRC. The authors examine how local production has responded to global trends and explore the effects of widespread de-regulation and China's accession to the World Trade Organisation.  

East Asian Screen Industries (International Screen Industries)

Arts & Photography

Davis, Darrell

History & Criticism

British Film Institute

East Asian Screen Industries is a guide to the film industries of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the PRC. The authors examine how local production has responded to global trends and explore the effects of widespread de-regulation and China's accession to the World Trade Organisation.

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The Colonial Screen: Early Cinema in Hong Kong

The Colonial Screen: Early Cinema in Hong Kong

Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island (Film and Culture Series)

Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island (Film and Culture Series)

Staging Memories: Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness

East Asian Screen Industries (International Screen Industries)

East Asian Screen Industries (International Screen Industries)