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香港電影：傳統與現代性 Hong Kong Cinema: Tradition and Modernity
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School of Chinese Scholar Seminar
香港電影：傳統與現代性
Hong Kong Cinema: Tradition and Modernity
摘要 Abstract:
1937年上海淪陷後，大批南來文人和電影製片人遷居香港，拍攝了不少粵語抗日宣傳電影，又稱「國防電影」。本次講座以這段發生在香港的歷史為開端，闡釋在這個眾聲喧嘩的文化空間中，抗日宣傳電影如何與香港的通俗文化交匯。粵劇和電影、影像和聲音、傳統與現代之間的辯證，意外地開闢了一條渠道予各種文化想像和新可能。這種種因素不但影響了戰前香港粵語電影的發展，更為戰後香港的電影業奠下堅實的基礎。
After the fall of Shanghai in 1937, a large amount of southbound literati and filmmakers fled to Hong Kong—a British colony where they produced numerous anti-Japanese propaganda films in Cantonese, commonly known as "national defence films." This seminar starts with this pivotal historical moment and examines how these political propaganda films intersected with the city’s popular culture within a turbulent cultural landscape. The dialectic between Cantonese opera and film, image and sound, tradition and modernity unexpectedly gave rise to diverse cultural imaginations and new creative possibilities. These dynamics not only shaped the development of Cantonese cinema in pre-war Hong Kong but also laid a crucial foundation for the city’s post-war film industry.
講者簡介 About the Speaker:
趙傑鋒 嶺南大學電影與創意產業研究中心助理教授(研究)，於香港中文大學取得博士學位，研究題目為二戰前香港的粵語抗戰宣傳電影。《市井香港》是他第一本著作，由研究論文改寫而成，2024年底出版。
CHIU Kit Fung Henry is research assistant professor at the Centre for Film and Creative Industries, Lingnan University. He obtained his PhD from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a dissertation on prewar Hong Kong cinema. He is the author of Hong Kong Informality, his first monograph published in 2024.
