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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Ann Arbor, Michigan :
University of Michigan Press
[2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I. Revising historiography : early film culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Guangzhou
- 1. Translating Yingxi : Chinese film genealogy and early cinema in Hong Kong
- 2. Magic lantern shows and screen modernity in colonial Taiwan
- 3. From an imported novelty to an indigenized practices : Hong Kong cinema in the 1920s
- 4. Enlightenment, propaganda, and image creation : a descriptive analysis of the usage of film by the Taiwan education society and the colonial government before 1937
- 5. 'Guangzhou Film' and Guangzhou urban culture
- 6. The way of the Platinum Dragon : Xue Juexian and the sound of politics in 1930s Cantonese cinema-- Part II. Intermediaries, cinephiles, and film literati
- 7. Toward the opposite side of 'vulgarity' the birth of cinema as a 'healthful entertainment' and the Shanghai YMCA
- 8. Movie matchmakers : the intermediatries between Hollywood and China in the early twentieth century
- 9. The silver star group : a first attempt at theorizing wenyi in the 1920s
- 10. Forming the movie field : film literati in Republican China
- 11. Rhythmic movement, metaphoric sound, and transcultural transmediality : Liu Na'ou and The man who has a camera (1933)
- Chinese and Japanese glossary.
