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China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema
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Description for China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema
Paperback. The transnational history and cultural politics of the Shaw Brothers' movie empire Editor(s): Fu, Poshek. Series: Popular Culture and Politics in Asia Pacific. Num Pages: 280 pages, 12 photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APFB; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Started in Shanghai in the 1920s, the legendary Shaw Brothers Studio began to dominate the worldwide Chinese film market after moving its production facilities to Hong Kong in 1957. Drawing together scholars from such diverse disciplines as history, cultural geography, and film studies, China Forever addresses how the Shaw Brothers raised the production standards of Hong Kong cinema, created a pan-Chinese cinema culture and distribution network, helped globalize Chinese-language cinema, and appealed to the cultural nationalism of the Chinese who found themselves displaced and unsettled in many parts of the world during the twentieth century. Contributors are Timothy P. Barnard, Cheng ... Read more
Started in Shanghai in the 1920s, the legendary Shaw Brothers Studio began to dominate the worldwide Chinese film market after moving its production facilities to Hong Kong in 1957. Drawing together scholars from such diverse disciplines as history, cultural geography, and film studies, China Forever addresses how the Shaw Brothers raised the production standards of Hong Kong cinema, created a pan-Chinese cinema culture and distribution network, helped globalize Chinese-language cinema, and appealed to the cultural nationalism of the Chinese who found themselves displaced and unsettled in many parts of the world during the twentieth century. Contributors are Timothy P. Barnard, Cheng ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Popular Culture and Politics in Asia Pacific
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252075001
SKU
V9780252075001
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About Fu
Poshek Fu is a professor of history, cinema studies, and East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas and Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai.
Reviews for China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema
“Something for everyone . . . effectively lays down a solid foundation for further research.”
China Quarterly "An impressive, in-depth inquiry into the historical mutations, cultural innovations, and political implications of the rise and development of the Shaw Brothers’ movie empire. Of the many volumes on Hong Kong movie industries, this is the first to focus solely on the history of ... Read more
China Quarterly "An impressive, in-depth inquiry into the historical mutations, cultural innovations, and political implications of the rise and development of the Shaw Brothers’ movie empire. Of the many volumes on Hong Kong movie industries, this is the first to focus solely on the history of ... Read more