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Article: Tropical Hong Kong: Narratives of absence and presence in Hollywood and Hong Kong films of the 1950s and 1960s
Title | Tropical Hong Kong: Narratives of absence and presence in Hollywood and Hong Kong films of the 1950s and 1960s |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Exoticism Film Hong Kong Regionalization Southeast Asia Tropical |
Issue Date | 2008 |
Publisher | Blackwell Publishing Asia. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/SJTG |
Citation | Singapore Journal Of Tropical Geography, 2008, v. 29 n. 1, p. 8-23 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Despite being subtropical, Hong Kong, in both Hollywood and Hong Kong films of the 1950s and 1960s, is often filmically represented as tropical. This subtle climatic elision, I argue, holds a particular political valence that varies according to filmic tradition. In Hollywood narratives, Hong Kong's tropicality is a means to exoticize and, ultimately, marginalize the realities of the local. It is a way to turn Hong Kong's physical presence into an absence. In Hong Kong films in that same cold war environment, the relative blandness of the city is an attempt to realign its film industry with the free nations of Southeast Asia. For Hong Kong films, the strategy of tropicalization was thus a means to turn away from China and redefine Hong Kong as part of a network of capitalist, modern, overseas Chinese cities located in the sunny tropics of Southeast Asia. © Journal compilation © 2008 Department of Geography, National University of Singapore and Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/177596 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.2 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.589 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Gan, W | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-12-19T09:37:56Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-12-19T09:37:56Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Singapore Journal Of Tropical Geography, 2008, v. 29 n. 1, p. 8-23 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0129-7619 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/177596 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Despite being subtropical, Hong Kong, in both Hollywood and Hong Kong films of the 1950s and 1960s, is often filmically represented as tropical. This subtle climatic elision, I argue, holds a particular political valence that varies according to filmic tradition. In Hollywood narratives, Hong Kong's tropicality is a means to exoticize and, ultimately, marginalize the realities of the local. It is a way to turn Hong Kong's physical presence into an absence. In Hong Kong films in that same cold war environment, the relative blandness of the city is an attempt to realign its film industry with the free nations of Southeast Asia. For Hong Kong films, the strategy of tropicalization was thus a means to turn away from China and redefine Hong Kong as part of a network of capitalist, modern, overseas Chinese cities located in the sunny tropics of Southeast Asia. © Journal compilation © 2008 Department of Geography, National University of Singapore and Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Blackwell Publishing Asia. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/SJTG | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography | en_US |
dc.subject | Exoticism | en_US |
dc.subject | Film | en_US |
dc.subject | Hong Kong | en_US |
dc.subject | Regionalization | en_US |
dc.subject | Southeast Asia | en_US |
dc.subject | Tropical | en_US |
dc.title | Tropical Hong Kong: Narratives of absence and presence in Hollywood and Hong Kong films of the 1950s and 1960s | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Gan, W: wchgan@hkucc.hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Gan, W=rp01165 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1467-9493.2008.00316.x | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-41049100278 | en_US |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 142296 | - |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-41049100278&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 29 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 8 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 23 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000254919500002 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Australia | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Gan, W=23982684900 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citeulike | 2540719 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0129-7619 | - |