Hong Kong popular culture : worlding film, television, and pop music
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Hong Kong popular culture : worlding film, television, and pop music
(Hong Kong studies reader series / series editors, Brian C.H. Fong, Tai-Lok Lui, Stephen Chiu)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2020
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book traces the evolution of the Hong Kong's popular culture, namely film, television and popular music (also known as Cantopop), which is knotted with the city's geo-political, economic and social transformations. Under various historical contingencies and due to the city's special geo-politics, these three major popular cultural forms have experienced various worlding processes and have generated border-crossing impact culturally and socially. The worlding processes are greatly associated the city's nature as a reception and departure port to Sinophone migrants and populations of multiethnic and multicultural.
Reaching beyond the "golden age" (1980s) of Hong Kong popular culture and afar from a film-centric cultural narration, this book, delineating from the dawn of the 20th century and following a chronological order, untangles how the nowadays popular "Hong Kong film", "Hong Kong TV" and "Cantopop" are derived from early-age Sinophone cultural heritage, re-shaped through cross-cultural hybridization and influenced by multiple political forces. Review of archives, existing literatures and corporation documents are supplemented with policy analysis and in-depth interviews to explore the centennial development of Hong Kong popular culture, which is by no means demise but at the juncture of critical transition.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction.- 2. Making of Hong Kong Film.- 3. Worlding Hong Kong Film.- 4. Making of Hong Kong TV.- 5. Worlding of Hong Kong TV.- 6. Making of Cantopop.- 7. Worlding of Cantopop.- 8. Epilogue.
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