Yingchi Chu: 2 books
Chinese Documentaries
From Dogma to Polyphony
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
In China, unlike in Western cinema, documentary film, rather than fiction film, has been the dominant mode since 1949. In recent years, documentary TV programmes have experienced a meteoric rise. Arguing that there is a gradual process of 'democratization' in the media, in which documentaries play...
Hong Kong Cinema
Coloniser, Motherland and Self
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Examining Hong Kong cinema from its inception in 1913 to the end of the colonial era, this work explains the key areas of production, market, film products and critical traditions. Hong Kong Cinema considers the different political formations of Hong Kong's culture as seen through the cinema, and...