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

• Main Author: Teo, Stephen
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102372; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18989
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...