Hong Kong Cinema and Sinophone Transnationalisms

Hong Kong Cinema and Sinophone Transnationalisms explores the intricate complexity of selected films and film—making practices from 1930s Hong Kong (and Shanghai) to the later ‘new wave’ phenomenon of the 1980s. The result is a Sinophone cinema that created some very different ways of understanding ‘China’ and ‘Chineseness’, developing their own ‘cosmopolitan dreaming’ within the cultural and economic changes of those times. Exploring sinification and its multiple manifestations in film, th...