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Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinemas The Amoy-Dialect Film Industry in Cold War Asia
By Jeremy E. Taylor
Copyright 2011
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Amoy-dialect film industry emerged in the 1950s, producing cheap, b-grade films in Hong Kong for direct export to the theatres of Manila Chinatown, southern Taiwan and Singapore. Films made in Amoy dialect - a dialect of Chinese - reflected a particular period in the history of the Chinese diaspora, and have been little studied due to their ambiguous place within the wider realm of Chinese... Read more
1. Rethinking Transnationalism 2. Defining Amoy-Dialect Cinema 3. Origins and Development 4. The Shaping of a Cinema 5. The ‘New Amoy-Dialect Films’ 6. A Cold-War Industry 7. The End of Amoy-Dialect Cinema
Biography
Jeremy E. Taylor is a lecturer in Chinese Studies at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, UK.
"Jeremy Taylor has written a delightful book about the Hokkien-language cinema industry during the 1950s and early 1960s... Taylor has searched extraordinarily widely to obtain relevant material. In addition to reading extensively in the scholarly literature, he has conducted interviews, obtained much information from a broad variety of newspapers and trade journals, and visited and mined many archives. The very readable text has 17 photographs illustrating many of the book’s themes... For those interested in Overseas Chinese, Taiwan or Chinese cinema, this book is a gem!" - J. Bruce Jacobs, Monash University; The China Journal, No. 67
