Cynical authorship and the Hong Kong studio system : Li Hanxiang and his Shaw Brothers erotic films

This chapter presents the notion of Cynical authorship as a theoretical means to stake out possible new ground around the confluence of auteurism and collaboration. The chapter focuses on Li's authorship in relation to the Shaw Brothers Studio and the genre of the erotic films which became vast...

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Main Author: Teo, Stephen
Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1023722020-03-07T12:15:51Z Cynical authorship and the Hong Kong studio system : Li Hanxiang and his Shaw Brothers erotic films Teo, Stephen Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media This chapter presents the notion of Cynical authorship as a theoretical means to stake out possible new ground around the confluence of auteurism and collaboration. The chapter focuses on Li's authorship in relation to the Shaw Brothers Studio and the genre of the erotic films which became vastly popular in the 1970s, largely due to Li's creative efforts after he returned to the fold of Shaw Brothers following the failure of his own studio. These films became something of a specialty to Li. In tackling the question of authorship in this way, the chapter discusses authorship through a different cultural and national context (the Hong Kong Mandarin cinema) than that of most Western academic writing on the subject of the auteur or authorship so as to offer some reflections on the nature of film authorship. 2014-03-27T05:55:21Z 2019-12-06T20:54:02Z 2014-03-27T05:55:21Z 2019-12-06T20:54:02Z 2013 2013 Journal Article Teo, S. (2013). Cynical authorship and the Hong Kong studio system : Li Hanxiang and his Shaw Brothers erotic films. A Companion to Media Authorship, 257-274. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102372 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18989 10.1002/9781118505526.ch13 en A Companion to Media Authorship © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Cynical authorship and the Hong Kong studio system : Li Hanxiang and his Shaw Brothers erotic films
description This chapter presents the notion of Cynical authorship as a theoretical means to stake out possible new ground around the confluence of auteurism and collaboration. The chapter focuses on Li's authorship in relation to the Shaw Brothers Studio and the genre of the erotic films which became vastly popular in the 1970s, largely due to Li's creative efforts after he returned to the fold of Shaw Brothers following the failure of his own studio. These films became something of a specialty to Li. In tackling the question of authorship in this way, the chapter discusses authorship through a different cultural and national context (the Hong Kong Mandarin cinema) than that of most Western academic writing on the subject of the auteur or authorship so as to offer some reflections on the nature of film authorship.
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