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Extraterritoriality
Locating Hong Kong Cinema and Media
by Victor Fan
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Actively rewrites and reconfigures how Hong Kong cinema and media are to be defined and located
Examining how Hong Kong filmmakers, spectators and critics wrestled with this perturbation between the Leftist Riots (1967) and the aftermath of the Umbrella Movement (2014), this book traces how Hong Kong’s extraterritoriality has been framed: in its position of being doubly occupied and doubly abandoned by contesting juridical, political, linguistic and cultural forces.
Extraterritoriality scrutinises creative works in mainstream cinema, independent films, television, video artworks and documentaries – especially those by marginalised artists – actively rewriting and reconfiguring how Hong Kong cinema and media are to be defined and located.
Key features
• Proposes extraterritoriality as a key theoretical concept
• Forms a dialogue with Postcolonial Studies and Sinophone Studies
• Offers in-depth archival studies of the Hong Kong film industry, television and video arts, as well as major political crises in Hong Kong, including the 1967 Riots, the Sino-British negotiation of Hong Kong’s ‘future’, the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement and the Umbrella Movement
About the Author:
Victor Fan is Senior Lecturer at Film Studies, King’s College London and Film Consultant of the Chinese Visual Festival. His articles have appeared in journals including Camera Obscura, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Screen and Film History: An International Journal. His first book, 'Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory', was published in 2015 by the University of Minnesota Press. Besides his academic works, Fan is also a composer, theatre director and filmmaker.
Press Reviews:
Fan forges a bracingly original perspective on the conjunction of cinema and politics in this book, which sets out an authoritative history of Hong Kong cinema while also radically rethinking the basis on which such a history – constituted by dispossession and exclusion, rather than identity and belonging – can be composed.– Professor Jean Ma, Stanford University
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
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