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An exploration of the Hong Kong film market chronicles its history and worldwide influence, profiling its most important films and figures while providing photographs, filmographies, and a video guide.
Author : Barry Long
Publisher : Miramax Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 1998-11-04
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : 9780786883592
An exploration of the Hong Kong film market chronicles its history and worldwide influence, profiling its most important films and figures while providing photographs, filmographies, and a video guide.
Author : James O'Reilly
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 32,77 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781885211033
"We've collected useful and memorable stories to produce the kind of sampler we've always wanted to read before setting out. These stories will show you a spectrum of experiences to be had or avoided in Hong Kong"--Back cover
Author : Jules Brown
Publisher : Rough Guides
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Hong Kong (China)
ISBN : 9781858288727
This resource includes full details of Hong Kong harbour, its shopping and nightlife districts, traditional sites and off-the-beaten track areas of the New Territories and outlying islands. A history and a cultural guide is included, as well as places to eat, drink and sleep on every budget. Background information on post-handover politics and features on festivals, feng shui and Chinese astrology are also included.
Author : Ching-Mei Esther Yau
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 11,81 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780816632343
Breathtaking swordplay and nostalgic love, Peking opera and Chow Yun-fat's cult followers -- these are some of the elements of the vivid and diverse urban imagination that find form and expression in the thriving Hong Kong cinema. All receive their due in At Full Speed, a volume that captures the remarkable range and energy of a cinema that borrows, invents, and reinvents across the boundaries of time, culture, and conventions. At Full Speed gathers film scholars and critics from around the globe to convey the transnational, multilayered character that Hong Kong films acquire and impart as they circulate worldwide. These writers scrutinize the films they find captivating: from the lesser known works of Law Man and Yuen Woo Ping to such film festival notables as Stanley Kwan and Wong Kar-wai, and from the commercial action, romance, and comedy genres of Jackie Chan, Peter Chan, Steven Chiau, Tsui Hark, John Woo, and Derek Yee to the attempted departures of Evans Chan, Ann Hui, and Clara Law. In this cinema the contributors identify an aesthetics of action, gender-flexible melodramatic excesses, objects of nostalgia, and globally projected local history and identities, as well as an active critical film community. Their work, the most incisive account ever given of one of the world's largest film industries, brings the pleasures and idiosyncrasies of Hong Kong cinema into clear close-up focus even as it enlarges on the relationships between art and the market, cultural theory and the movies.
Author : Ian Aitken
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 33,42 MB
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 074866470X
Described as the 'lost genre', the tradition of documentary film making in Hong Kong is far less known than its martial arts films. However documentary film has always existed in Hong Kong and often trenchantly represents its troubled relationship to itself, China and the west. Including the period of colonial film-making, the high points of television documentary and the tradition of independent documentary film-making, this book is the first to present a comprehensive study of this lost genre. It explores the role of public-service television (including representations of the massacre at Tiananmen Square) and presents critical analysis of key films. Based on original archival research, it will be an invaluable resource for students and academics who work in the fields if film studies, colonial studies and Hong Kong cinema.
Author : Stephen WK Chiu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9811657076
This book borrows the concept of “high-definition” from digital broadcasting to highlight our unique approach to Hong Kong society, which gives a sharper image than analyses. It intends to highlight contrasts with many common and taken-for-granted stories, myths and representations of Hong Kong— which often presented with a low level of detail, lacking proper connections between grounded personal experiences and the macro social context. With chapters covering various salient dimensions of Hong Kong’s society, including migration, economy, inequality, identity and social movements, our “high-definition” approach presents images with high enough “resolution” to match multiple layers of experiences from walks of life of Hong Kong people, contributing to an understanding of how global transformation impacts local people’s experiences, as well as Hong Kong’s significance in the regional and global system.
Author : Marc Van De Mieroop
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 047069534X
This is the first biography in English of King Hammurabi, who ruled Babylon from 1792 to 1750 BC and presents a rounded view of his accomplishments. Describes how Hammurabi dealt with powerful rivals and extended his kingdom. Draws on the King’s own writings and on diplomatic correspondence that has only recently become available. Explores the administration of the kingdom and the legacies of his rule, especially his legal code. Demonstrates how Hammurabi’s conquests irrevocably changed the political organization of the Near East, so that he was long remembered as one of the great kings of the past. Written to be accessible to a general audience.
Author : Lisa Odham Stokes
Publisher : Verso
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 20,74 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781859847169
Hong Kong's film industry gained global attention in the 1980s, at the time of negotiations over Great Britain's return of the colony to China. Uncertainty about the post-handover era accelerated Hong Kong's race for economic growth, and found expression in cinema's depictions of a 'city on fire.' In this accessible introduction to the extraordinary cinematic output of the colony, Michael Hoover and Lisa Stokes review the directors and films that have established Hong Kong cinema internationally: John Woo's martial arts flicks, Tsui Hark's wire-worked fantasies, Ann Hui's exile melodramas, Stanley Kwan's limpid romances, and Wong Kar-wai's stylish art films.
Author : Poshek Fu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 2002-03-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780521776028
This volume examines Hong Kong cinema in transnational, historical, and artistic contexts.
Author : Janet Ng
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 13,80 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791476669
Materially grounded analysis of contemporary film, literature, and music in Hong Kong that resists the superficial stereotypes of the global city. Hong Kong is often cast in the role of the paradigmatic global city, epitomizing postmodernism and globalization, and representing a vision of a cosmopolitan global and capitalist future. In Paradigm City, Janet Ng takes us past the obsession with 1997the year of Hong Kongs return to Chinato focus on the complex uses and meanings of urban space in Hong Kong in the period following that transfer. She demonstrates how the design and ordering of the citys space and the practices it supports inculcates a particular civic aesthetic among Hong Kongs population that corresponds to capitalist as well as nationalist ideologies. Ngs insightful connections between contemporary film, literature, music and other media and the actual spaces of the citysuch as parks, shopping malls, and domestic spacesprovide a rich and nuanced picture of Hong Kong today. Paradigm City is pleasant reading and conveys quite comprehensively the complex socio-political dynamics of a city that has yet to find a clear identity in the midst of a seemingly never-ending transition. China Journal covers much in a quite interesting way. CHOICE