Since its inception more than a century ago, Hong Kong cinema has
been a pre-eminent form of local entertainment and a site of
ideological contentions propelled by colonial, national and
international politics at different historical junctures. The Other
Side of Glamour is a study of the historical development of the
left-wing film establishment in Hong Kong. The interplay between
the macro-politics of the Cold War and the micro-politics of a
regionalised/localised ideological warfare lends itself to a
critical mapping of the general contours of the 'cultural Cold War'
between the KMT and the CCP as it materialised in the so-called
'left right divide' in the filmmaking world. Using the major
studios as the main axis of analysis, this study traces the
footprints of the other collaborating cultural agents which made up
the left-wing film network in Hong Kong. It argues that the
left-wing's institutional character and corporate strategies in the
making of a 'popular left-wing cinema' are indispensable to an
understanding of their nuanced legacy in Hong Kong cinema today.
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