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China forever : the Shaw Brothers and diasporic cinema / edited by Poshek Fu.

Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
Copyright Date
©2008
Physical Description
270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators
Fu, Poshek, 1955-

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Contents
Introduction: The Shaw Brothers diasporic cinema / Poshek Fu -- Shaw cinema enterprise and understanding cultural industries / Lily Kong -- Shaw's Cantonese productions and their interactions with contemporary local and Hollywood cinema / Law Kar -- Embracing glocalization and Hong Kong-made musical film / Siu Leung Li -- Three readings of Hong Kong nocturne / Paul G. Pickowicz -- The black-and-white Wenyi films of Shaws / Wong Ain-Ling -- Territorialization and the entertainment industry of the Shaw Brothers in Southeast Asia / Sai-shing Yung -- The Shaw Brothers' Malay films / Timothy P. Barnard -- Bridging the Pacific with Love eterne / Ramona Curry -- Black audiences, blaxploitation and kung fu films, and challenges to white celluloid masculinity / Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua -- Shaw Brothers cinema and the hip-hop imagination / Fanon Che Wilkins -- Reminiscences of the life of an actress in Shaw Brothers' movietown / Cheng Pei-pei ; translated by Jing Jing Chang and Jeff McClain.
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ISBN
9780252032738 (cloth : alk. paper)
025203273X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252075001 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252075005 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography: (pages [255]-256).
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