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Shifted Empire: The Revival of Hong Kong Cinema in a New Place

Sun, May 27, 12:30 to 13:45, Hilton Prague, Floor: LL, Congress Hall II - Exhibit Hall/Posters

Abstract

With regard to the development of film industry, some critics argue the inter-national/regional coproduction project would threaten local cinema if it was dominated financially by the foreign counterpart. This worry under cultural imperialist thinking is common in Hong Kong as its collaboration with mainland China grows quickly while the local production is marginalized. However, as many successful films in China market were co-produced with Hong Kong, the “marginalized Hong Kong” could be questionable. This article uses network analysis to explore HK film workers’ influence in these projects and indicates that the participants in the developing/planing team are mainly from mainland China while the Hong Kong members are more influential than the others. Therefore, this article concludes the Hong Kong film industry has been revived through co-production, which implies that the core of empire could move to a new place to prolong its own life.

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