The transnational history and cultural politics of the Shaw Brothers' movie empire
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: The Shaw Brothers Diasporic Cinema 1
Poshek Fu
1. Shaw Cinema Enterprise and Understanding Cultural
Industries 27
Lily Kong
2. Shaw's Cantonese Productions and Their Interactions with
Contemporary Local and Hollywood Cinema 57
Law Kar
3. Embracing Glocalization and Hong Kong-Made Musical
FIlm 74
Siu Leung Li
4. Three Readings of Hong Kong Nocturne 95
Paul G. Pickowicz
5. The Black-and-White Wenyi Films of Shaws 115
Wong Ain-ling
6. Territorialization and the Entertainment Industry of the Shaw
Brothers in Southeast Asia 133
Sai-shing Yung
7. The Shaw Brothers' Malay FIlms 154
Timothy P. Barnard
8. Bridging the Pacific with Love Eterne 174
Ramona Curry
9. Black Audiences, Blaxploitation and Kung Fu Films, and
Challenges to White Celluloid Masculinity 199
Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
10. Shaw Brothers Cinema and the Hip-Hop Imagination
224
Fanon Che Wilkins
11. Reminiscences of the Life of an Actress in Shaw Brothers'
Movietown 246
Cheng Pei-pei
(translated by Jing Jing Chang and Jeff McClain)
Select Filmography 255
Lane J. Harris
Contributors 257
Index 261
Poshek Fu is a professor of history, cinema studies, and East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas and Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai.
“Something for everyone . . . effectively lays down a solid
foundation for further research.”--China Quarterly
"An impressive, in-depth inquiry into the historical mutations,
cultural innovations, and political implications of the rise and
development of the Shaw Brothers’ movie empire. Of the many volumes
on Hong Kong movie industries, this is the first to focus solely on
the history of the Shaw Brothers."--David Der-wei Wang, author of
The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional
Writing in Twentieth-Century China
"This instructive book will be a pleasure for seasoned scholars and
amateurs of Hong King cinema alike. Extremely useful for Asian
cinema courses, this first book-length study of the Shaw
Brothers--who were pioneers in the Chinese language and trans-Asian
commercial film industry--provides valuable cultural history and
global context."--Tonglin Lu, author of Confronting Modernity in
the Cinemas in Taiwan and Mainland China
"Reopens the gates to the Shaw Brothers' legend."--Electronic Book
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