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1. Hong Kong Cinema

   Coloniser, Motherland and Self

   By Yingchi Chu

   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...

   Published August 13th 2009 by Routledge
2. Chinese Documentaries

   From Dogma to Polyphony

   By Yingchi Chu

   Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

   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...

   Published April 2nd 2009 by Routledge