Screening Communities: Negotiating Narratives of Empire, Nation, and the Cold War in Hong Kong Cinema
Synopsis:Postwar Hong Kong cinema played an active role in building the colony’s community in the 1950s and 1960s. Focusing on the genres of official documentary film, leftist family melodrama (lunlipian), and youth film, this study examines the triangulated relationship of colonial interventions in Hong Kong film culture, the rise of left-leaning Cantonese directors as new cultural elites, and the positioning of audiences as contributors to the colony’s journey toward industrial modernity.
ISBN:9789888455768
Language:English
Author:Jing Jing Chang
Author Biography:Jing Jing Chang is associate professor of film studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. She has written articles on such topics as celebrity culture and Cold War politics in postwar Hong Kong cinema. Her current research explores the sexual politics of Hong Kong cinema since the 1970s.
