Stanley Kwan's Center Stage

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by Mette Hjort

Type

Studies

Subject

One Film > Center Stage

Keywords

Stanley Kwan

Publishing date

2006

Publisher

Hong Kong University Press

Collection

The New Hong Kong Cinema

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 158 pages
5 ½ x 7 ½ inches (14 x 19 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

962-209-791-X
978-962-209-791-9

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Book Presentation:
Hjort argues that Stanley Kwan's contribution in Center Stage is to develop an approach to nonfiction filmmaking that is realist without being naïve. The value of the film's reflexive dimension, Hjort shows, has nothing to do with poststructuralist skepticism but with the compelling manifestation of a communicative model that serves as an alternative to hierarchical and authoritarian modes of social organization.

About the Author:
Mette Hjort is Professor and Program Director of Visual Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong and Professor of Intercultural Studies at Aalborg University in Denmark. She was for many years Director of Cultural Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her most recent book is Small Nations, Global Cinema.

Press Reviews:
"With Mette Hjort’s new book, Stanley Kwan finally gets the sustained and discerning critical regard in English he so justly deserves. Hjort understands Kwan's heroic gamble with history as not simply a self-reflexive exercise, but as a profoundly moving

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