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Author Lee, Vivian P. Y., 1966- author.

Title 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.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Global film studios
Global film studios.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro -- 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 fi lm network since the 1980s -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index
Summary Hong Kong cinema has been a pre-eminent form of local entertainment and a site of ideological contentions propelled by colonial, national and international politics at different historical junctures. The Other Side of Glamour is a study of the historical development of the left-wing film establishment in Hong Kong.
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Subject Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- China -- Hong Kong -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
China -- Hong Kong.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Motion pictures -- China -- Hong Kong -- History -- 21st century.
Motion pictures.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Chinese in motion pictures.
Chinese in motion pictures.
HISTORY / Asia / China.
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Original 1474424627 9781474424622 (OCoLC)1039907635
ISBN 9781474424639 (electronic book)
1474424635 (electronic book)
9781474424622
1474424627
9781474424622