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Hong Kong cinema : a cross-cultural view
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Hong Kong cinema : a cross-cultural view

Author: Kar Law; Frank Bren
Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English
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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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