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Extraterritoriality : Locating Hong Kong Cinema and Media / Victor Fan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) : 50 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9781474440424
  • 9781474440448
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430951 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Transliteration -- On Extraterritoriality -- 1 What is Hong Kong Cinema? -- 2 Breaking the Wave -- 3 The Time it Takes for Time to End -- 4 Posthistoricity -- 5 The Age of Precarity -- The Body of Extraterritoriality -- Notes -- Filmography and Videography -- Index
Summary: Actively rewrites and reconfigures how Hong Kong cinema and media are to be defined and locatedExamining how Hong Kong filmmakers, spectators and critics wrestled with this perturbation between the Leftist Riots (1967) and the aftermath of the Umbrella Movement (2014), this book traces how Hong Kong’s extraterritoriality has been framed: in its position of being doubly occupied and doubly abandoned by contesting juridical, political, linguistic and cultural forces.Extraterritoriality scrutinises creative works in mainstream cinema, independent films, television, video artworks and documentaries – especially those by marginalised artists – actively rewriting and reconfiguring how Hong Kong cinema and media are to be defined and located.Key featuresProposes extraterritoriality as a key theoretical conceptForms a dialogue with Postcolonial Studies and Sinophone StudiesOffers in-depth archival studies of the Hong Kong film industry, television and video arts, as well as major political crises in Hong Kong, including the 1967 Riots, the Sino-British negotiation of Hong Kong’s ‘future’, the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement and the Umbrella Movement
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Transliteration -- On Extraterritoriality -- 1 What is Hong Kong Cinema? -- 2 Breaking the Wave -- 3 The Time it Takes for Time to End -- 4 Posthistoricity -- 5 The Age of Precarity -- The Body of Extraterritoriality -- Notes -- Filmography and Videography -- Index

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Actively rewrites and reconfigures how Hong Kong cinema and media are to be defined and locatedExamining how Hong Kong filmmakers, spectators and critics wrestled with this perturbation between the Leftist Riots (1967) and the aftermath of the Umbrella Movement (2014), this book traces how Hong Kong’s extraterritoriality has been framed: in its position of being doubly occupied and doubly abandoned by contesting juridical, political, linguistic and cultural forces.Extraterritoriality scrutinises creative works in mainstream cinema, independent films, television, video artworks and documentaries – especially those by marginalised artists – actively rewriting and reconfiguring how Hong Kong cinema and media are to be defined and located.Key featuresProposes extraterritoriality as a key theoretical conceptForms a dialogue with Postcolonial Studies and Sinophone StudiesOffers in-depth archival studies of the Hong Kong film industry, television and video arts, as well as major political crises in Hong Kong, including the 1967 Riots, the Sino-British negotiation of Hong Kong’s ‘future’, the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement and the Umbrella Movement

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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