Hollywood of the East: the rise and fall of the Hong Kong film industry since the 1970s
Shin, Kei-Wah Victor. ; "November 2010." ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 177-198). ; Abstracts in English and Chinese. ; Abstract --- p.i ; Acknowledgments --- p.iv ; Table of Contents --- p.vi ; List of Tables --- p.ix ; List of Figures --- p.xii ; Chapter Chapter 1: --- Framing the Puzzles --- p.1 ; "INTRODUCING: ""The Curious Case of. a Fallen 'Asian Hollywood'""" --- p.3 ; METHOD AND DATA --- p.6 ; STRUCTURE OF THE THESIS --- p.12 ; Chapter Chapter 2: --- ""The Blind Side"" of Existing Explanations" --- p.15 ; CONVENTIONAL EXPLANATIONS --- p.17 ; Triad Intrusion and Piracy --- p.17 ; Hasty and Unpolished Productions --- p.19 ; EXPLANATIONS DERIVED FROM THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES --- p.21 ; The Cultural Imperialism approach --- p.22 ; The Cultural-flows/ Network approach --- p.27 ; Suppositions related to the Cultural-flows/ Network approach --- p.32 ; The Reception approach --- p.36 ; The Cultural Policy and Strategies approach --- p.41 ; What about the Receiving Countries? --- p.46 ; THE POLITICAL-CULTURAL APPROACH --- p.48 ; Chapter Chapter 3: --- The "Bloom´ح in the 1970s and the 1980s --- p.53 ; "THE ""BLOOM""" --- p.53 ; BRINGING IN THE POLITICAL-CULTURAL APPROACH --- p.57 ; THE INDUSTRIAL SETTING OF THE HONG KONG FILM MARKET VIS-A-VIS HOLLYWOOD --- p.59 ; THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE HONG KONG FILM MARKET --- p.62 ; From Studio System to Independent Production System since the 1970s --- p.63 ; The Revenue-sharing Structure --- p.68 ; """CONCEPTIONS OF CONTROL"" IN THE HONG KONG FILM MARKET (1970s - 1980s)" --- p.70 ; Distributor-driven Exhibition --- p.72 ; Distributor-driven Production --- p.75 ; HONG KONG FILM INDUSTRY AT ITS PEAK IN THE LATE 1980s --- p.81 ; SUMMARY --- p.88 ; Chapter Chapter 4: --- "The ""Twilight"" since the mid-1990s" --- p.91 ; WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE 1990s? --- p.91 ; The Plot in Brief --- p.92 ; THE KEY TO SUCCESS TURNS INTO A SOURCE OF STRESS --- p.97 ; "Conventional Practices inscribed in the ...