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.
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The Other Side of Glamour
The Left-wing Studio Network in Hong Kong Cinema in the Cold War Era and Beyond
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The Other Side of Glamour
The Left-wing Studio Network in Hong Kong Cinema in the Cold War Era and Beyond
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Film & VideoTable of contents
- 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
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