Emilie Yueh-Yu Yeh

The Colonial Screen

Early Cinema in Hong Kong

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Produktbeschreibung

Author Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh presents an unknown history of early film in Hong Kong. Drawing on screen practice and entrepôt, among other concepts, she brings to light the historical significance of Hong Kong as a regional node in movie trade routes and locates the reception of motion pictures in a time of colonial modernity and governance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9780197800577
• ISBN-10: 0197800572
• Artikelnr.: 73922294

Autorenporträt

Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh has been teaching in Hong Kong since 1997. She is Lam Wong Yiu Wah Chair Professor of Visual Studies, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Director of Centre for Film and Creative Industries at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Formerly she was Professor and Director of the Academy of Film at Hong Kong Baptist University. Yeh's publications include ten books--including Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories (as editor) and Staging Memories: Hou Hsiao-hsien's City of Sadness (co-authored with Abe-Nornes Markus)--and more than 70 book chapters and journal articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Colonial Screen and Early Cinema in Hong Kong: An Introduction
1: Early Cinema in Hong Kong: Revisiting Chinese Film Genealogy
2: Projecting the Colonial Screen
3: More than Law and Order: Regulating the Colonial Screen
4: Famous Players, Famous Places
5: Becoming a Film Entrepôt : Hong Kong Amusements.