The Other Side of Glamour : : The Left-wing Studio Network in Hong Kong Cinema in the Cold War Era and Beyond / / Vivian P.Y. Lee.

Studies the historical origins and transformation in styles and production modes of Hong Kong’s left-wing studiosWhat does it mean to be on the “left” of the Hong Kong film industry during the Cold War era?How did the left-wing studios balance their artistic, ideological, and commercial agendas in t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2020
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Global Film Studios : GFS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.) :; 16 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • A note on the timeline
  • Timeline
  • Introduction
  • 1 The left-wing film apparatus in postwar Hong Kong
  • 2 Left in the right way: corporate strategy and the making of a popular left-wing
  • 3 Remaking Cantonese film culture: Union and Sun Luen
  • 4 Class, gender, and modern womanhood: Feng Huang and Great Wall
  • 5 Corporate repositioning, transnational cultural brokerage, and soft power: Sil-Metropole
  • 6 Critical transitions on the non-left: Patrick Lung and Cecile Tang
  • 7 From political alibis to creative incubators: the left -wing film network since the 1980s
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Filmography
  • Index