Cinema of Hong Kong
The cinema of Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港電影) is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese-language cinema, alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan. As a former British colony, Hong Kong had a greater degree of political and economic freedom than mainland China and Taiwan, and developed into a filmmaking hub for the Chinese-speaking world (including its worldwide diaspora).
For decades, Hong Kong was the third largest motion picture industry in the world following US cinema and Indian cinema, and the second largest exporter. Despite an industry crisis starting in the mid-1990s and Hong Kong's transfer to Chinese sovereignty in July 1997, Hong Kong film has retained much of its distinctive identity and continues to play a prominent part on the world cinema stage. In the West, Hong Kong's vigorous pop cinema (especially Hong Kong action cinema) has long had a strong cult following, which is now a part of the cultural mainstream, widely available and imitated.
Economically, the film industry together with the value added of cultural and creative industries represents 5 per cent of Hong Kong's economy.[7]
History[edit]
1909 to World War II[edit]
During its early history, Hong Kong's cinema played second fiddle to that of the mainland, particularly the city of Shanghai, which was then the movie capital of the Chinese-speaking world. Very little of this work is extant: one count finds only four films remaining out of over 500 produced in Hong Kong before World War II.[17] Detailed accounts of this period therefore have inherent limitations and uncertainties.
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List of Hong Kong films
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Bordwell, David (2000). Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment. Cambridge, Mass.: . ISBN 9780674002142.
Harvard University Press
Chan, Jackie; Yang, Jeff (1998). I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action. New York: . ISBN 9780345415035.
Ballantine Books
Cheuk, Pak Tong; Zhuo, Botang (2008). Hong Kong New Wave Cinema (1978–2000) (1st ed.). Bristol: Intellect. 9781841501482.
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Chute, David; Lim, Cheng-Sim, eds. (2003), Heroic Grace: The Chinese Martial Arts Film, Los Angeles: UCLA Film and Television Archive (Film series catalogue; no ISBN.)
; Long, Barry (1997). Hong Kong Babylon: The Insider's Guide to the Hollywood of the East. New York: Miramax Books. ISBN 978-0-7868-6267-2. Biographies of film makers, as well as reviews.
Dannen, Fredric
Fonoroff, Paul (1997). Silver Light: A Pictorial History of Hong Kong Cinema, 1920–1970. Hong Kong: . ISBN 978-962-04-1304-9.
Joint Publishing
(1972). Dianying/Electric Shadows: An Account of Films and the Film Audience in China. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Leyda, Jay
Logan, Bey (1995). Hong Kong Action Cinema. Woodstock, N.Y.: . ISBN 9780879516635.
The Overlook Press
McDonald, Paul (2000). "The Star System: The Production of Hollywood Stardom in the Post-Studio Era". In McDonald, Paul; Wasko, Janet (eds.). The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry. Hoboken, New Jersey: . pp. 167–181. ISBN 978-1-4051-3388-3.
Blackwell Publishing
Odham Stokes, Lisa; Hoover, Michael (1999). City on Fire: Hong Kong Cinema. London: Verso. 9781859847169. Hong Kong cinema analysed from a Marxist perspective.
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Teo, Stephen (1997). Hong Kong Cinema: The Extra Dimensions. London: . ISBN 9780851705149.
British Film Institute
Yang, Jeff; Gan, Dina; Hong, Terry; Staff of A. magazine (1997). . Boston: Mariner Books; Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-76341-X. OCLC 37022942.
Eastern Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence on American Culture from Astro Boy to Zen Buddhism
Yang, Jeff (2003). Once Upon a Time in China: A Guide to Hong Kong, Taiwanese, and Mainland Chinese Cinema. New York: Atria. 9780743448178.
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Baker, Rick, and Toby Russell; Lisa Baker (ed.). The Essential Guide to Deadly China Dolls. London: Eastern Heroes Publications, 1996. 1-899252-02-9. Biographies of Hong Kong action cinema actresses.
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Baker, Rick, and Toby Russell; Lisa Tilston (ed.). The Essential Guide to Hong Kong Movies. London: Eastern Heroes Publications, 1994. 1-899252-00-2. Contains reviews, but is best for its Hong Kong Film Personalities Directory.
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Baker, Rick, and Toby Russell; Lisa Tilston (ed.). The Essential Guide to the Best of Eastern Heroes. London: Eastern Heroes Publications, 1995. 1-899252-01-0.
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Brady, Terrence J. Alexander Fu Sheng: Biography of the Chinatown Kid. Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2018. 978-1-7173-6367-1.
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Charles, John. The Hong Kong Filmography 1977–1997: A Complete Reference to 1,100 Films Produced by British Hong Kong Studios. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2000. 0-7864-0842-1. Very comprehensive.
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Cheung, Esther M. K., and Yaowei Zhu (eds.). Between Home and World: A Reader in Hong Kong Cinema. Xianggang du ben xi lie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 0-19-592969-1.
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Chu, Yingchi. Hong Kong Cinema: Coloniser, Motherland and Self. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. 0-7007-1746-3.
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Eberhard, Wolfram. The Chinese silver screen: Hong Kong & Taiwanese motion pictures in the 1960s, Taipei: Orient Cultural Service, 1972.
Fitzgerald, Martin. Hong Kong's Heroic Bloodshed. North Pomfret, VT: Trafalgar Square, 2000. 1-903047-07-2.
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Fonoroff, Paul. At the Hong Kong Movies: 600 Reviews from 1988 Till the Handover. Hong Kong: Film Biweekly Publishing House, 1998; Odyssey Publications, 1999. 962-217-641-0, ISBN 962-8114-47-6.
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Fu, Poshek, and , eds. The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, July 2000. ISBN 0-521-77235-4.
David Desser
Glaessner, Verina. Kung Fu: Cinema of Vengeance. London: Lorimer; New York: Bounty Books, 1974. 0-85647-045-7, ISBN 0-517-51831-7.
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Hammond, Stefan. Hollywood East: Hong Kong Movies and the People Who Make Them. Contemporary Books, 2000. 0-8092-2581-6.
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Hammond, Stefan, and Mike Wilkins. Sex and Zen & A Bullet in the Head: The Essential Guide to Hong Kong's Mind-bending Films. New York: Fireside Books, 1996. 0-684-80341-0, ISBN 1-85286-775-2.
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Jarvie, Ian C. Window on Hong Kong: A Sociological Study of the Hong Kong Film Industry and Its Audience, Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, 1977.
Jarvie, Ian C. "The Social and Cultural Significance of the Decline of the Cantonese Movie", Journal of Asian Affairs (SUNY Buffalo), Vol. III, No. 2, Fall 1979, pp. 40–50.
Jarvie, Ian C. "Martial Arts Films", in Erik Barnouw, ed., International Encyclopaedia of Communications, 1989, vol. 2, pp. 472–475.
Kar, Law, and Frank Bren. Hong Kong Cinema: A Cross-Cultural View. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2004. 0-8108-4986-0.
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Li, H. C. Chinese Cinema: Five Bibliographies. Hong Kong: Studio 8, 2003.
Lo Che-ying (comp.). A Selective Collection of Hong Kong Movie Posters: 1950s–1990s. Hong Kong in Pictorials Series. Hong Kong: Joint Publishing (H.K.) Co., Ltd., 1992. 962-04-1013-0. Bilingual: (in Chinese)
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O'Brien, Daniel. Spooky Encounters: A Gwailo's Guide to Hong Kong Horror. Manchester: Headpress, 2003. 1-900486-31-8.
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Pang, Laikwan, and Day Wong (eds.). Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005. 962-209-737-5, ISBN 962-209-738-3.
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Stokes, Lisa Odham, Jean Lukitsh, Michael Hoover, and Tyler Stokes. Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema. Historical dictionaries of literature and the arts, no. 2. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2007. 0-8108-5520-8.
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Stringer, Julian. "Problems with the Treatment of Hong Kong Cinema as Camp". Asian Cinema vol. 8, no. 2 (Winter 1996–97): 44–65. :10.1386/AC.8.2.44_1.
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Stringer, Julian. Blazing Passions: Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema. London: Wallflower, 2008. 1-905674-30-9, ISBN 1-905674-29-5.
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Tobias, Mel C. Flashbacks: Hong Kong Cinema After Bruce Lee. Hong Kong: Gulliver Books, 1979. 962-7019-03-8.
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Wong, Ain-ling. The Hong Kong-Guangdong Film Connection. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Film Archive, 2005. 962-8050-33-8.
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Wong, Ain-ling. The Shaw Screen: A Preliminary Study. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Film Archive, 2003. 962-8050-21-4.
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Wood, Miles. Cine East: Hong Kong Cinema Through the Looking Glass. Guildford, Surrey: FAB Press, 1998. 0-9529260-2-4. Interviews with Hong Kong film makers.
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Yau, Esther C. M., ed. At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. 0-8166-3234-0, ISBN 0-8166-3235-9.
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Zhong, Baoxian. "Hollywood of the East" in the Making: The Cathay Organization Vs. the Shaw Organization in Post-War Hong Kong. [Hong Kong]: Centre for China Urban and Regional Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2004. 962-8804-44-8.
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Zhong, Baoxian. Moguls of the Chinese Cinema: The Story of the Shaw Brothers in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore, 1924–2002. Working paper series (David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies); no. 44. Hong Kong: David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2005.
—The largest and most comprehensive database of Hong Kong cinema in English and Chinese
HKMDB.com
—Celebrating Hong Kong action cinema
Hong Kong Cinema
—Comprehensive collection of movie posters
Hong Kong Movie Posters
—Reviews the vast majority of the movies currently coming out of Hong Kong
LoveHKFilm.com
—Celebrating Asian Films
LoveAsianFilm.com
—includes an extensive bibliography on martial arts films.
The Wonderful World of Hong Kong Action Cinema
—another extensive bibliography on Chinese film.
Chinese Film, Chinese Media, Print Culture 1
is a database of films and people blended with an editorial content, in English and French.
Hong Kong Cinemagic
a growing collection of full-text publications (currently 1,850+) published between 1946 and 1997. Developed by HKBU Library