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- ISBN 9781474424622
- Weight: 436g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 May 2020
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Since its inception more than a century ago, 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.
The interplay between the macro-politics of the Cold War and the micro-politics of a regionalised/localised ideological warfare lends itself to a critical mapping of the general contours of the ‘cultural Cold War’ between the KMT and the CCP as it materialised in the so-called ‘left–right divide’ in the filmmaking world. Using the major studios as the main axis of analysis, this study traces the footprints of the other collaborating cultural agents which made up the left-wing film network in Hong Kong. It argues that the left-wing’s institutional character and corporate strategies in the making of a ‘popular left-wing cinema’ are indispensable to an understanding of their nuanced legacy in Hong Kong cinema today.
Vivian Lee is Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese and History at City University of Hong Kong. She is the author of 'Hong Kong Cinema since 1997: the Post-nostalgic Imagination' and editor of 'East Asian Cinemas: Global Flows and Regional Transformations'. Her work has been published in academic journals and edited volumes including the Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Hong Kong Horror Cinema, A Companion to Wong Kar-wai, and the Chinese Cinema Book.
