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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Weitere Verfasser: Yeh, Emilie Yueh-yu (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 2018
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Zusammenfassung: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
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ISBN:0472073729
0472123440
0472901028
0813592178
9780472073726
9780472123445
9780472901029
9780813592176
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