>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/30/03 02:50AM >>> At 2003-06-29 23:43 -0400, you wrote: >check out next to last paragraph re. films, then go to pp 300-302 of >this really cool book entitled _city on fire: hong kong cinema_... >michael hoover
does this open the door to a new cultural revolution? under which mode of production? and will it resist or succumb to international finance capital, led by the USA? Chris Burford London <<<>>> haven't the foggiest... many hk film folk have thought for years - back before 1997 - that access to mainland would save hk industry, china only imports a couple dozen films a year and hk productions have - until this agreement - been subject to such constraints, one problem is that mainland box office for hk films peaked about 10 years ago and has been on skids since, hk-mainland joint ventures don't do so well either, mainlanders today like hollywood pictures... mainland director chen kaige once said that hollywood's attitude is good directors make films that make money, hence, one is a bad director if one's films don't make money...of course, he said this before he came to the states... michael hoover
