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The trajectory of Hong Kong films had been drastically affected long before the city’s official sovereignty transfer from the British to the Chinese in 1997.
Hong Kong Screenscapes
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Esther M. K. Cheung
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-01 - Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

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Global connections and screen innovations converge in Hong Kong cinema. Energized by transnational images and human flows from China and Asia, Hong Kong's comme
Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time
Language: en
Pages: 197
Authors: Wimal Dissanayake
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-06-01 - Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

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Ashes of Time, by the internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar-wai, has been considered to be one of the most complex and self-reflexive of Hong Kong films.
City on Fire
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Pages: 392
Authors: Lisa Odham Stokes
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Hong Kong's film industry gained global attention in the 1980s, at the time of negotiations over Great Britain's return of the colony to China. Uncertainty abou
At Full Speed
Language: en
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Breathtaking swordplay and nostalgic love, Peking opera and Chow Yun-fat's cult followers -- these are some of the elements of the vivid and diverse urban imagi