China forever : the Shaw Brothers and diasporic cinema
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China forever : the Shaw Brothers and diasporic cinema
（Popular culture and politics in Asia Pacific）
University of Illinois Press, c2008
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Filmography: p. [255]-256
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Description
Started in Shanghai in the 1920s, the legendary Shaw Brothers Studio began to dominate the worldwide Chinese film market after moving its production facilities to Hong Kong in 1957. Drawing together scholars from such diverse disciplines as history, cultural geography, and film studies, China Forever addresses how the Shaw Brothers raised the production standards of Hong Kong cinema, created a pan-Chinese cinema culture and distribution network, helped globalize Chinese-language cinema, and appealed to the cultural nationalism of the Chinese who found themselves displaced and unsettled in many parts of the world during the twentieth century. Contributors are Timothy P. Barnard, Cheng Pei-pei, Ramona Curry, Poshek Fu, Lane J. Harris, Law Kar, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Lilly Kong, Siu Leung Li, Paul G. Pickowicz, Fanon Che Wilkins, Wong Ain-ling, and Sai-shing Yung.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: The Shaw Brothers Diasporic Cinema 1
Poshek Fu
1. Shaw Cinema Enterprise and Understanding Cultural Industries 27
Lily Kong
2. Shaw's Cantonese Productions and Their Interactions with Contemporary Local and Hollywood Cinema 57
Law Kar
3. Embracing Glocalization and Hong Kong-Made Musical FIlm 74
Siu Leung Li
4. Three Readings of Hong Kong Nocturne 95
Paul G. Pickowicz
5. The Black-and-White Wenyi Films of Shaws 115
Wong Ain-ling
6. Territorialization and the Entertainment Industry of the Shaw Brothers in Southeast Asia 133
Sai-shing Yung
7. The Shaw Brothers' Malay FIlms 154
Timothy P. Barnard
8. Bridging the Pacific with Love Eterne 174
Ramona Curry
9. Black Audiences, Blaxploitation and Kung Fu Films, and Challenges to White Celluloid Masculinity 199
Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
10. Shaw Brothers Cinema and the Hip-Hop Imagination 224
Fanon Che Wilkins
11. Reminiscences of the Life of an Actress in Shaw Brothers' Movietown 246
Cheng Pei-pei
(translated by Jing Jing Chang and Jeff McClain)
Select Filmography 255
Lane J. Harris
Contributors 257
Index 261
by "Nielsen BookData"
