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Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinemas - The Amoy-Dialect Film Industry in Cold War Asia (Paperback)
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Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinemas - The Amoy-Dialect Film Industry in Cold War Asia (Paperback)
Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
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The Amoy-dialect film industry emerged in the 1950s, producing
cheap, b-grade films in Hong Kong for direct export to the theatres
of Manila Chinatown, southern Taiwan and Singapore. Films made in
Amoy dialect - a dialect of Chinese - reflected a particular period
in the history of the Chinese diaspora, and have been little
studied due to their ambiguous place within the wider realm of
Chinese and East Asian film history. This book represents the first
full length, critical study of the origin, significant rise and
rapid decline of the Amoy-dialect film industry. Rather than
examining the industry for its own sake, however, this book focuses
on its broader cultural, political and economic significance in the
region. It questions many of the assumptions currently made about
the 'recentness' of transnationalism in Chinese cultural
production, particularly when addressing Chinese cinema in the Cold
War years, as well as the prominence given to 'the nation' and
'transnationalism' in studies of Chinese cinemas and of the Chinese
Diaspora. By examining a cinema that did not fit many of the
scholarly models of 'transnationalism', that was not grounded in
any particular national tradition of filmmaking and that was
largely unconcerned with 'nation-building' in post-war Southeast
Asia, this book challenges the ways in which the history of Chinese
cinemas has been studied in the recent past.
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