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Under-researched and often forgotten, documentary film-making in Hong Kong includes a thriving independent documentary film movement, a large archive of documentaries made by the colonial film units, and a number of classic British Official Films. Case studies from all three categories are examined in this book, including The Battle of Shanghai, The Sea and the Sky, Rising Sun and The Hong Kong Case.

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'For too long Hong Kong documentary has itself constituted a kind of structuring absence within the region's cinema - a mode of politically-engaged filmmaking apparently truant from Hong Kong film history. Aitken and Ingham's book redresses the matter, and goes a long way to making the forgotten heritage of Hong Kong documentary present and vital. If the book elicits from the reader a rewarding sense of discovery, this satisfaction is qualified only by the knowledge that many of the films cited are lost, damaged, or languishing in archives. One hopes that Hong Kong Documentary Film - and the related scholarship surely to follow in its path - will hasten the wider dissemination of the documentary films discussed here and those yet to be discovered.' --Gary Bettinson, Lancaster University New Review of Film and Television Studies, 13:2

For too long Hong Kong documentary has itself constituted a kind of structuring absence within the region's cinema - a mode of politically-engaged filmmaking apparently truant from Hong Kong film history. Aitken and Ingham's book redresses the matter, and goes a long way to making the forgotten heritage of Hong Kong documentary present and vital. If the book elicits from the reader a rewarding sense of discovery, this satisfaction is qualified only by the knowledge that many of the films cited are lost, damaged, or languishing in archives. One hopes that ong Kong Documentary Film - and the related scholarship surely to follow in its path - will hasten the wider dissemination of the documentary films discussed here and those yet to be discovered. -- Gary Bettinson, ew Review of Film and Television Studies

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Ian Aitken is Professor in the Department of Cinema and TV at Hong Kong Baptist University. Michael Ingham is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.

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