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Hong Kong Screenscapes – From the New Wave to the Digital Frontier

Gina Marchetti author See Kam Tan author Esther M K Cheung author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Hong Kong University Press

Published:1st Nov '10

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Global connections and screen innovations drive Hong Kong screenscapes that flow with transnational cultural production, circulation and consumption, highlighting innovations, interactions, disjunctures, differences, and ruptures therein. Focusing on the film clubs of the 1960s and 1970s, the successive new waves since the 1980s and the post-handover digital revolution, this book offers a timely and refreshing look at the shifts and changes in Hong Kong's multifaceted screenscapes.

This fascinating collection of scholarly articles and interviews provides a welcome corrective to the perception of cinema in Hong Kong consisting solely of mainstream productions. Uncovering a rich history of independent traditions from the 1960s to the present, the book is an indispensable reference for anyone interested in Hong Kong film and world cinema more generally. -- Tim Bergfelder, University of Southampton

ISBN: 9789888028566

Dimensions: 227mm x 160mm x 22mm

Weight: 574g

316 pages