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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| Format: | eBook |
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Ann Arbor
University of Michigan Press
2018
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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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (365 p.) |
| ISBN: | mpub.9731616 9780472073726;9780472053728 |
| Access: | Open Access |