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冷戰光影：地緣政治下的香港電影審查史
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November 19, 2022
Some notes:
- Background of the book, MA thesis, supervised by John Carroll
- How Hong Kong was the minor cold war front (The Cold War's international context has impacted local HK communities.)
- Film censorship as a perspective on the relationship between ruling power, cultural ecology/hegemony and popular aesthetics
- 政治審查（1940-1967） vs 道德審查 (1967-78), But the line between the two is not always clear
- The censorship in the film industry may seem negative, aiming at prohibition, but in fact, it is also actively creating new, legitimate cultural concepts
There are some valuable archives in the book, but the discussion of the case studies seems to be able to be dug deeper. I like the point repeated several times in the book: any attempt to look at history in a black-and-white way is dangerous, even when dealing with censorship.
- Background of the book, MA thesis, supervised by John Carroll
- How Hong Kong was the minor cold war front (The Cold War's international context has impacted local HK communities.)
- Film censorship as a perspective on the relationship between ruling power, cultural ecology/hegemony and popular aesthetics
- 政治審查（1940-1967） vs 道德審查 (1967-78), But the line between the two is not always clear
- The censorship in the film industry may seem negative, aiming at prohibition, but in fact, it is also actively creating new, legitimate cultural concepts
There are some valuable archives in the book, but the discussion of the case studies seems to be able to be dug deeper. I like the point repeated several times in the book: any attempt to look at history in a black-and-white way is dangerous, even when dealing with censorship.
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