Worldly desires : cosmopolitanism and cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan

Worldly desires : cosmopolitanism and cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan /

"How does cinema imagine our place in the world? Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan looks at the studios, films and policies that charted the transnational vision of Hong Kong and Taiwan, two places with an uneasy relationship to the idea of nationhood. Examinin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hu, Brian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
Series:Edinburgh studies in East Asian film.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Motion pictures > China > Hong Kong > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures > Taiwan > History > 20th century.
PERFORMING ARTS / Reference
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
Motion pictures
China > Hong Kong
Taiwan
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Melodramas of arrival and departure : Jet-set students in 1970s Taiwanese romance
  • ABCs, mixed-race stars, and other monsters of globalization
  • Setting the stage : Hong Kong musical stars take on the world
  • All the right moves : mobile heroes and the Shaolin Temple film
  • The cosmopolitan brand : film policy as cultural work in the international film market
  • Conclusion.

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