Japanese and Hong Kong film industries : understanding the origins of East Asian film networks / Kinnia Shuk-ting Yau.

Author
Yau, Kinnia Shuk-ting [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
New York, NY : Routledge, 2009.
Description
1 online resource (283 p.)

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Drawing on first-hand materials collected from the Chinese and Japanese literature as well as interviews with more than twenty filmmakers and scholars Kinnia Shuk-ting Yau provides a solid historical account of the complex interactions between Japanese and Hong Kong film industries from the 1930s to 1970s.The author describes in detail how Japan's efforts during the 1930s and 1940s to produce a ""Greater East Asian cinema"" led to many different kinds of collaborations between the filmmakers from China, Hong Kong and Japan, and how such development had laid the foundation for
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English
Contents
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1 Hong Kong and Japanese cinemas before and during wartime; 2 Connections between Chinese and Japanese cinemas initiated by Zhonghua Dianying; 3 The immediate causes of Hong Kong-Japanese collaboration; 4 The golden age of Hong Kong- Japanese collaboration; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix I: Hong Kong patriotic films (1934-41); Appendix II: Japanese movies shown in the Shanghai concessions (1942-5); Appendix III: Hong Kong-Japanese collaborative activities (1923-73); Appendix IV: Glossary; Index of names
  • Index of films
ISBN
  • 1-135-21947-8
  • 1-282-25703-X
  • 9786612257032
  • 0-203-87427-7
OCLC
449188481
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