Author Archive for: ‘Linda Lai’
Hong Kong cinema in the 1930s: docility, social hygiene, pleasure-seeking & the consolidation of the film industry
[1] Uploaded 1 November 2000 This paper explores the final consolidation of Hong Kong’s film industry in the 1930s, over thirty years after cinema was introduced to the colony, and twenty years after the first local film was made. A widely held view about Hong Kong’s pre-war cinema is expressed in an essay by Hong Kong film writer Stephen Teo, …
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