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Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (The New Hong Kong Cinema Series)

By Mette Hjort

Book information

Publisher
Hong Kong University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
962209791X, 9789622097919
Open Library ID
OL9160171M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15438169 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
144\161
Topic
Art Cinema
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Center Stage is widely recognized as a classic of the New Hong Kong cinema, with its fascinating reconstruction of Ruan Lingyu’s tragic life as a Chinese film star combined with sequences documenting the making of his film. Whereas many film scholars regard Stanley Kwan’s film as an example of the Hong Kong nostalgia film, Mette Hjort shows that Center Stage is better understood as a heritage film that provides a precious cultural resource for rethinking relations between Hong Kong and China.

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