Films of Fury Seminar: Globalizing Hong Kong Cinema in the 1950's and 60's

Professor David Desser will give a talk on Hong Kong's force in international cinema.

Time: 3:00pm

David Desser - Professor of Cinema Studies, Comparative Literature, and EALC Research Professor

By the 1970s, Hong Kong had become a truly global force in international cinema, not only solidifying a trans-Asian audience appeal, but breaking into the coveted Euro-American film market. By the 1990s, Hong Kong was recognized as one of the world's premier film-producing sites. But there is a history to the efforts of Hong Kong to achieve international appeal and global prominence. This talk will outline the various strategies employed by the two major Mandarin-language film studios, MP&GI (Cathay) and Shaw Bros, to break out of the local and diasporic film circuits, culminating in the triumph of martial arts movies in the mid-1960s--that would lead to the eventual global breakthrough in the 1970s.

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