Filming Margins – Tang Shu Shuen, A Forgotten Hong Kong Woman Director

Author:   Yau Yau
Publisher:   Hong Kong University Press
ISBN:  

9789622096899


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 September 2004
Format:   Hardback
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Filming Margins – Tang Shu Shuen, A Forgotten Hong  Kong Woman Director


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This book studies the work of filmmaker Tang Shu Shuen in Hong Kong in the 1960s and 1970s. It is the first extensive study on a major and influential feminist authorship in Hong Kong cinema history. It raises issues regarding the applicability of paradigms of Western auteurism and feminist authorship in studying Tang's work.

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Author:   Yau Yau
Publisher:   Hong Kong University Press
Imprint:   Hong Kong University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.692kg
ISBN:  

9789622096899


ISBN 10:   9622096891
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 September 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Language:   English

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Yau Ching elegantly uses her personal experience as a Hong Kong born scholar/artist/filmmaker to unravel one of the most fascinating enigmas in contemporary Hong Kong film history the alluring figure of Tang Shu Shuen, who directed four films, became a c Through the examination of the work of a female director, whose contribution to Hong Kong cinema was so belatedly, reluctantly, and still only partially recognized, Yau makes a strong case for re-evaluating film scholarship in Hong Kong. Her eloquent wri


Through the examination of the work of a female director, whose contribution to Hong Kong cinema was so belatedly, reluctantly, and still only partially recognized, Yau makes a strong case for re-evaluating film scholarship in Hong Kong. Her eloquent wri Yau Ching elegantly uses her personal experience as a Hong Kong born scholar/artist/filmmaker to unravel one of the most fascinating enigmas in contemporary Hong Kong film history the alluring figure of Tang Shu Shuen, who directed four films, became a c


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Yau Ching is currently Assistant Professor at the School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is a Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Hawai'I in 2004.

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