The Colonial Screen by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh - 9780197798300

The Colonial ScreenEarly Cinema in Hong Kong\nAuthor(s): Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780197798300, 978-0197798300\nSynopsis\nHong Kong is known as an entrept in its colonial history, but its place in early cinema has not received the same scholarly attention. The Colonial Screen: Early Cinema in Hong Kong explores the exhibition, regulation, circulation, reception, and social place of motion pictures, from the time the cinematograph, an early mechanism for motion pictures, first arrived in the territory in 1897 through to the late 1920s when Hong Kong emerged as a film entrept in South China.\n\nDrawing on concepts of screen practice, dispositif (deployment, apparatus), kinematography (motion pictures before cinema), and entrept, author Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh presents an unknown history of early film in Hong Kong. She traces the transition from film exhibition as a tie-in with.