ISBN:
9780472901029
,
9780472073726
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Keywords:
The arts: general issues
;
Electronic, holographic & video art
;
Asian history
Abstract:
This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground cinema's relationship with imperialism and colonialism and emphasize the rapid development of cinema as a sociocultural institution. These essays examine where films were screened; how cinema-going as a social activity adapted from and integrated with existing social norms and practices; the extent to which Cantonese opera and other regional performance traditions were models for the development of cinematic conventions; the role foreign films played in the development of cinema as an industry in the Republican era; and much more
Note:
English
