Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China

Kaleidoscopic Histories

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Av Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Emilie Yueh-Yu Yeh

489 kr

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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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Utgivningsdatum2018-02-14
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor364
FörlagThe University of Michigan Press
ISBN9780472053728

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