主要內容

「中國電影」的迷思:二十世紀五、六十年代香港右派國語片的後遺民情結 The Myth of Chinese Cinema: The Post-loyalist Complex in Hong Kong Rightist Mandarin Films in the 1950-60s

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2022/23 School of Chinese Research Student Seminar

 

「中國電影」的迷思:二十世紀五、六十年代香港右派國語片的後遺民情結

The Myth of Chinese Cinema: The Post-loyalist Complex in Hong Kong Rightist Mandarin Films in the 1950-60s

 

Speaker: Miss ZHANG Huiyan

 

Date: May 19, 2023 (Fri)

Time: 17:30 - 18:45

Language: Putonghua

 

Mode of Delivery: 100% Face-to-face

Venue: CPD-3.29, Central Podium Level 3, The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

 

上世紀五、六十年代,以國際電影懋業公司和邵氏兄弟電影公司為首的右派電影公司收攬大量南來影人,企圖在香港實現打造「東方荷李活」的商業大計。借助香港、臺灣及東南亞在冷戰時期複雜的地緣政治關係,電懋、邵氏在中國域外建構起另類的「中國電影」。九七以降,內地與香港的學者都捕捉到五、六十年代香港國語片對上海電影模式的傳承,由此對香港電影史衍生出兩套迥然不同的敘述範式——中國電影的組成部分和依託粵語片的香港電影。本次報告從後遺民視角出發,以電懋和邵氏出品的三部國語片為例,呈現它們如何在因循三十年代上海電影風格的同時,從「影以載道」的傳統中脫身,由此剖析香港右派國語片如何在「中國電影」的旗號下,一步步走向對現代國族政治論述所推崇的「正統」的解構。

 

In the 1950-60s, right-wing film companies led by Motion Picture & General Investment Co Ltd. and Shaw Brothers (HK) Ltd., drew a lot of Shanghai film employees, and attempted to create the “Oriental Hollywood” in Hong Kong. Under the geopolitical relations among Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia during the Cold War, MP&GI and the Shaw Brother built an alternative “Chinese cinema” (zhongguo dianying) outside China. Since 1997, scholars from mainland China and Hong Kong have captured the inheritance of the Shanghai films from Hong Kong Mandarin films in the 1950s and 1960s, then generated two different narratives for the development of Hong Kong cinema: a part of Chinese cinema and Hong Kong cinema mainly relying on Cantonese movies. This report will select post-loyalist perspective to analyze three mandarin movies from MP&GI and the Shaw Brother, to present how they abandon the nation-state discourse while following the style of Shanghai cinema in the 1930s, and to explore how Hong Kong rightist mandarin movies in the name of “Chinese cinema”, refer to the deconstruction of “orthodoxy” advocated in modern national political discourse.

 

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