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Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2018Description: 1 Online-Ressource (365 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780472073726
Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: 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 as a sociocultural institution. These essays examine where films were screened; how cinema-going as a social activity adapted from and integrated with existing social norms and practices; the extent to which Cantonese opera and other regional performance traditions were models for the development of cinematic conventions; the role foreign films played in the development of cinema as an industry in the Republican era; and much morePPN: PPN: 1778544916Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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