Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China : Kaleidoscopic Histories /

This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground cinema's relationship with imperialism and colonialism and emphasize the rapid development of cinema a...

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Other Authors: Yeh, Emilie Yueh-yu (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Summary:This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground cinema's relationship with imperialism and colonialism and emphasize the rapid development of cinema as a sociocultural institution. These essays examine where films were screened; how cinema-going as a social activity adapted from and integrated with existing social norms and practices; the extent to which Cantonese opera and other regional performance traditions were models for the development of cinematic conventions; the role foreign films played in the development of cinema as an industry in the Republican era; and much more.
Item Description:Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Physical Description:1 online resource (364 pages): illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780472901029
Access:Open Access