History of Holland by George Edmundson (42 Reviews) Price verified 10 hours ago
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Genre: History / Length: 518 Pages (706 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: May 13th, 2024Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh (2 Reviews) Price verified 10 hours ago
This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground cinema's relationship with imperialism and colonialism and emphasize the rapid development of cinema as a sociocultural institution. These essays examine where films were screened; how cinema-going as a social activity adapted from and integrated with existing social norms and practices; the extent to which Cantonese opera and other regional ...
Genre: History / Length: 366 Pages (2,260 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: May 13th, 2024