New Hong Kong Cinema Transitions to Becoming Chinese in 21st-Century East Asia [Hardcover]

The trajectory of Hong Kong films had been drastically affected long before the citys official sovereignty transfer from the British to the Chinese in 1997. The change in course has become more visible in recent years as China has aggressively developed its national film industry and assumed the role of powerhouse in East Asias cinematic landscape. The author introduces the Cinema of Transitions to study the New Hong Kong Cinema and on- and off-screen life against this background. Using examples from the 1980s to the present, this book offers a fresh perspective on how Hong Kong-related Chinese-language films, filmmakers, audiences, and the workings of film business in East Asia have become major platforms on which transitions are negotiated.

Ruby Cheungis Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. Her research and publications focus primarily on East Asian cinemas, in particular Hong Kong cinema and the mainstream film industries in the three major Chinese-speaking communities in Hong Kong, mainland China and Taiwan. She is the main editor ofCinemas, Identities and Beyond(2009), and co-editor ofFilm Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities(2010) andFilm Festival Yearbook 3: Film Festivals and East Asia(2011).

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Introduction:The New Hong Kong Cinema, Cinema of Transitions and East Asia

Chapter 1.Cinematic Journeys and Journeying in New Hong Kong Films
Chapter 2.Outsider Characters: Chineseness, and Hong Kong Screen Imagination and Imageries
Chapter 3.Hong Kong Filmmakers: Authorial Vision, Self-Inscription and Social Unl£)