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Author: Ian Aitken (Professor of Film Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University) ,
Michael Ingham
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.390kg
ISBN: 9781474405591
ISBN 10: 1474405592
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 26 May 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'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 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
Author Information
Ian Aitken was a chair professor, and is now an Emeritus Professor, affiliated to Hong Kong Baptist University. His areas of expertise lie in British documentary film studies, the British official film in South-East Asia, and theories of cinematic realism. His most recent book publications include Cinematic Realism (2020), The Major Realist Film Theorists (ed.), The British Official Film in South-East Asia (2016), and The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia (2016). Associate Professor in the Department of English at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
