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| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kar Law; Frank Bren |
| ISBN: | 0810849860 9780810849860 |
| OCLC Number: | 53441422 |
| Description: | xviii, 377 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | East meets West. Beyond the peep show: movies come to China ; Ben Brodsky's China ; The pioneers ; From American with love: "Making this colony the 'Hollywood of China'" ; The Esther Eng story. -- North meets South. Interflows between Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Guangzhou ; Wartime mobilization ; Postwar and postliberation transitions ; Into the turbulent sixties. -- Border crossings. Local versus foreign: the mainland and overseas ; Expansion into Nanyang -- Shaw Brothers versus Cathay ; Early links with Asia Pacific ; Further foreign collaborations. -- Female images. Songstress/prostitute ; Good wife/heroic mother ; Sweet birds of youth ; The majors groom the new breed ; Wild, wicked, and sexy. -- East versus West. The modern age ; Finale. -- Appendixes. Early film exhibition in Hong Kong and China ; Some early Hong Kong film venues ; An incomplete list of early film production in Hong Kong and mainland China: 1896-1908 ; Full text of the account of an early film show in Qi Garden published in Youxi Bao on September 5, 1897 ; Benjamin Brodsky filmography ; Hong Kong release years of California-based Grandview's feature film productions of 1941-1949 ; Film production in Hong Kong, 1957-1970 ; Notes on terms and names. |
| Responsibility: | Law Kar, Frank Bren ; with the collaboration of Sam Ho. |
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