The Colonial screen : early cinema in Hong Kong /
"The first book-length study on Hong Kong as a site of colonial screen practice in the early 20th century. Hong Kong is known as an entrepôt in its colonial history, but its place in early cinema remains unwritten. As a short history on the colonial screen of Hong Kong, the book covers circulat...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Colonial Screen and Early Cinema in Hong Kong: An Introduction
- Colonial Screen
- Early Cinema in Hong Kong
- The Colonial Screen as a Dispositif
- Early Cinema as Evolving Amusements
- Hong Kong as an Emerging Film Entrepôt
- 1 Early Cinema in Hong Kong: Revisiting Chinese Film Genealogy
- Reel 1: Chinese Film Genealogy
- Scene I: The Teahouse and the Chinese Garden
- Scene II: Translating Yingxi as "Shadow Play"
- Reel 2: News from Hong Kong
- Reel 3: Yinghua, Hong Kong's Early Screen Practice
- Reel 4: Yingxi as Photoplay, an Alternative to Chinese Film Genealogy
- 2 Projecting the Colonial Screen
- Reel One: Projectors and Projectionists
- Reel Two: Dispositifs
- Scene 1: The Technological Dispositif
- Scene 2: The Public Safety Dispositif
- Scene 3: The Racial Dispositif
- Reel Three: Early Cinema and Colonialism
- 3 More than Law and Order: Regulating the Colonial Screen
- Reel One: Employment of the Film Regulation
- Scene 1: The Theatres Regulation Ordinance, 1908
- Scene 2: Rent-Seeking
- Reel Two: More than Law and Order: The Control of Chinese Theatres
- Scene 1: Regulation of Chinese Ordinance, 1888
- Scene 2: Chinese Theatres under Fire
- 4 Famous Players, Famous Places
- Reel One: Famous Players
- Scene 1: Carl Hertz
- Scene 2: Ching Ling Foo, Chung Ling Soo, and Mei Lan-fang
- Reel Two: Famous Places
- Scene 1: Victoria Cinematograph and the Ramos & Ramos Company
- Scene 2: Bijou, the Bijou Scenic, and Robert H. Stephenson
- Scene 3: The Coronet Theatre and H. W. Ray
- 5 Becoming a Film Entrepôt: Hong Kong Amusements
- Reel One: Hong Kong Amusements Limited (1921-1935)
- Reel Two: Lo Kan
- Reel 3: The United Theatres (1932-1935)
- Reel Four: Closure of Hong Kong Amusements
- Notes
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Bibliography
- Index