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"In the past, we used experimental and alternative films to describe non-mainstream film production. Around the handover of sovereignty in 1997, the term "independent film" gradually became widely accepted. Although this term often appears in film discourses and film festival programs, its meaning and development are rarely discussed in Hong Kong.
This book attempts to adopt a comprehensive approach to analyze Hong Kong independent films: combining academic critical reviews and in-depth interviews with individual directors. We believe that academic research and the voice of creators are equally important. We need to balance the two in research, especially in the category of independent films, because producers in this sector play the most important role in the production process.
This book focuses on the producer’s first statement. I interviewed nine independent directors of different genders and ages: Xu Yashu, Zhong Desheng, You Jing, Lu Zhenye, Mai Wanxin, Cui Yunxin, Zeng Cuishan, Huang Xiuping and Zhuo Xiang to see how they view themselves How do you think about your position in the business-independent spectrum, and how to think about "independent" and "independent movies."
This book highlights the organic combination of art creators and academic researchers, and emphasizes not only the voice of creation, but also the analysis and theorization of researchers. According to the themes of the director's work, we put them in three parts: "Queer Landscape", "Between Cities and States" and "Cruel and Youth". We believe that the exchange between scholars and the world of film creation can provide more solid research results for Hong Kong's independent film scene.
【About the Author】
Enoch Tan is a lecturer at the School of Film of Hong Kong Baptist University and obtained his PhD degree from the Department of Film of Hong Kong Baptist University. His research interests include early Chinese film, Hong Kong film, Hong Kong literature and creative writing. He has translated Lim Song-hwee's Tsai Ming-Liang and A Cinema of Slowness. His academic papers have been published in Journal of Chinese Cinemas and Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture. Published in other journals. He was awarded the Young Artist Award (Art Critic) category by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2015.
Li Peiran, Associate Professor of the Department of Chinese and History, City University of Hong Kong, received a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. He once taught at the University of Victoria in Canada and is currently working at the City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests are Modern Chinese Literature, Chinese Films and East Asian Films. Thesis has been published in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Chinese Films in Focus 2, The Chinese Cinema Book and other journals, and has written about Hong Kong Cinema Since 1997 : The Post-nostalgic Imagination.
Wu Guokun is an associate professor at the School of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University. He received his Ph.D. from Buddhist University in the United States. He has taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Open University of Hong Kong and the City University of Hong Kong. His research directions are historical imagination in popular culture, Chinese language films and visual culture, modern life and cultural studies of literature, and he has published papers on literature and film in different journals. Personal writing Lost Horizon: Li Jieren, Geopoetic Memory and the Crisis of Writing the Locality in Revolutionary China was published in 2015. "
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[Views of Hong Kong Independent Films: Interview Collection]
Author: Enoch Tan, Li Pei Ran, Wu Guokun
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Shoumin Publishing House was established in 2015. It is dedicated to publishing Hong Kong studies, gender theory, left-wing theory and Republican studies, hoping to introduce the latest discourse and research into Hong Kong's cultural perspective through original and translated works. Books published include "Hong Kong's Third Road: Mo Zhaoru's Anaki Popular Drama", "Kaka Feminism", "Mirror: Chinese Visual Modernity", "Writing for Left-wing Populism" and "The People's Present: Thinking of Urban Democracy in the Post-Occupy Era" etc.
