Mette Hjort is Professor and Program Director of Visual Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong and Professor of Intercultural Studies at Aalborg University in Denmark. She was for many years Director of Cultural Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her latest book, The Cinema of Small Nations (with Duncan Petrie), is forthcoming from the University of Edinburgh Press.

• 1 On Method, Production, and Reception; - Angles and Approaches; - Documentary Filmmaking in Hong Kong; - The Making of Center Stage; - Producers' Decisions, Distributors' Practices; - The Constitution of Center Stage as a Classic of the New Hong Kong Cinema; 2 Film Style; - The Cinematic Image as Historical Trace, Documentary Record, and Interpretive Reconstruction; - The Director's Cut and the Shortened Version; - Artifice, Reflexivity, and Doubt: Center Stage and the Question of Knowledge; 3 Relevance and Meaning; - Heritage Culture; - Against Gossip: On Hierarchy and Egalitarianism; - Lianhua, Kwan, and TVB; Notes; Credits; Awards and Nominations; Stanley Kwan's Filmography.

Mette Hjort is Professor and Program Director of Visual Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong and Professor of Intercultural Studies at Aalborg University in Denmark. She was for many years Director of Cultural Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her latest book, The Cinema of Small Nations (with Duncan Petrie), is forthcoming from the University of Edinburgh Press.

• 1 On Method, Production, and Reception; - Angles and Approaches; - Documentary Filmmaking in Hong Kong; - The Making of Center Stage; - Producers' Decisions, Distributors' Practices; - The Constitution of Center Stage as a Classic of the New Hong Kong Cinema; 2 Film Style; - The Cinematic Image as Historical Trace, Documentary Record, and Interpretive Reconstruction; - The Director's Cut and the Shortened Version; - Artifice, Reflexivity, and Doubt: Center Stage and the Question of Knowledge; 3 Relevance and Meaning; - Heritage Culture; - Against Gossip: On Hierarchy and Egalitarianism; - Lianhua, Kwan, and TVB; Notes; Credits; Awards and Nominations; Stanley Kwan's Filmography.

Mette Hjort is Professor and Program Director of Visual Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong and Professor of Intercultural Studies at Aalborg University in Denmark. She was for many years Director of Cultural Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her latest book, The Cinema of Small Nations (with Duncan Petrie), is forthcoming from the University of Edinburgh Press.

• 1 On Method, Production, and Reception; - Angles and Approaches; - Documentary Filmmaking in Hong Kong; - The Making of Center Stage; - Producers' Decisions, Distributors' Practices; - The Constitution of Center Stage as a Classic of the New Hong Kong Cinema; 2 Film Style; - The Cinematic Image as Historical Trace, Documentary Record, and Interpretive Reconstruction; - The Director's Cut and the Shortened Version; - Artifice, Reflexivity, and Doubt: Center Stage and the Question of Knowledge; 3 Relevance and Meaning; - Heritage Culture; - Against Gossip: On Hierarchy and Egalitarianism; - Lianhua, Kwan, and TVB; Notes; Credits; Awards and Nominations; Stanley Kwan's Filmography.