Audrey Yue
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888028757
- eISBN:
- 9789882206618
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028757.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
The pioneering independent filmmaker Ann On-wah Hui has drawn much acclaim for her sensitive portrayals of numerous Hong Kong tragedies and marginalized populations. In a career spanning three ...
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The pioneering independent filmmaker Ann On-wah Hui has drawn much acclaim for her sensitive portrayals of numerous Hong Kong tragedies and marginalized populations. In a career spanning three decades, Hui has been director, producer, writer, and actress for more than thirty films. This work analyzes a 1990 film considered by many to be one of Hui's most haunting and poignant works, Song of the Exile. The semi-autobiographical film depicts a daughter's coming to terms with her mother's Japanese identity. Themes of cross-cultural alienation, divided loyalties, and generational reconciliation resonated strongly amid the migration and displacement pressures surrounding Hong Kong in the early 1990s. Even now, more than a decade after the 1997 Handover, the film is a perennial favorite among returning Hong Kong emigrants and international cinema students alike.Less
The pioneering independent filmmaker Ann On-wah Hui has drawn much acclaim for her sensitive portrayals of numerous Hong Kong tragedies and marginalized populations. In a career spanning three decades, Hui has been director, producer, writer, and actress for more than thirty films. This work analyzes a 1990 film considered by many to be one of Hui's most haunting and poignant works, Song of the Exile. The semi-autobiographical film depicts a daughter's coming to terms with her mother's Japanese identity. Themes of cross-cultural alienation, divided loyalties, and generational reconciliation resonated strongly amid the migration and displacement pressures surrounding Hong Kong in the early 1990s. Even now, more than a decade after the 1997 Handover, the film is a perennial favorite among returning Hong Kong emigrants and international cinema students alike.
Audrey Yue
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888028757
- eISBN:
- 9789882206618
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028757.003.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Song of the Exile was released in Hong Kong from 27 April 1990 to 16 May 1990, and grossed over HK$3,071,212 (MPIA 1990). Produced by Cos Group and distributed by Golden Harvest, the film ...
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Song of the Exile was released in Hong Kong from 27 April 1990 to 16 May 1990, and grossed over HK$3,071,212 (MPIA 1990). Produced by Cos Group and distributed by Golden Harvest, the film consolidated the career of the director, Ann On-wah Hui, Hong Kong's “most influential director in the 80s” and “one of Asia's premium directors”. This book specifically analyzes her ninth film, Song of the Exile, undoubtedly one of her finest. This film is based on Hui's semi-autobiographical story about a daughter coming to terms with her mother's Japanese identity. It also approaches this film through several features of Hong Kong cinema as diasporic cinema. An overview of the chapters included in this book is given. It is hoped that this book can show how the border cinema of Song of the Exile, as a practice of representation and a representation of practice, can articulate an alternative Hong Kong modernity as a new form of public pedagogy central to the ethics of its re-turn.Less
Song of the Exile was released in Hong Kong from 27 April 1990 to 16 May 1990, and grossed over HK$3,071,212 (MPIA 1990). Produced by Cos Group and distributed by Golden Harvest, the film consolidated the career of the director, Ann On-wah Hui, Hong Kong's “most influential director in the 80s” and “one of Asia's premium directors”. This book specifically analyzes her ninth film, Song of the Exile, undoubtedly one of her finest. This film is based on Hui's semi-autobiographical story about a daughter coming to terms with her mother's Japanese identity. It also approaches this film through several features of Hong Kong cinema as diasporic cinema. An overview of the chapters included in this book is given. It is hoped that this book can show how the border cinema of Song of the Exile, as a practice of representation and a representation of practice, can articulate an alternative Hong Kong modernity as a new form of public pedagogy central to the ethics of its re-turn.
Audrey Yue
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888028757
- eISBN:
- 9789882206618
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028757.003.0002
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter analyzes the intimate relationship between the homeland and the diaspora. It first offers a critical overview of Ann On-wah Hui's films to show the centrality of the diaspora in her ...
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This chapter analyzes the intimate relationship between the homeland and the diaspora. It first offers a critical overview of Ann On-wah Hui's films to show the centrality of the diaspora in her oeuvre. It then explores the film's representations of homelands (Britain, China, and Japan) to illustrate the diaspora's intrinsic yet contradictory relationship to the homeland. It also demonstrates how new practices of diasporic intimacies are produced by the displacement of migration. The film's representations of the second home (Macau, Manchuria) are further evaluated to critically consider its excentric location as a new ontology for Hong Kong modernity. The diasporas featured in Song of the Exile question the place of home and its condition of belonging. Diasporic intimacy and second homes provide a new ontological and genealogical beginning to considering Hong Kong modernity.Less
This chapter analyzes the intimate relationship between the homeland and the diaspora. It first offers a critical overview of Ann On-wah Hui's films to show the centrality of the diaspora in her oeuvre. It then explores the film's representations of homelands (Britain, China, and Japan) to illustrate the diaspora's intrinsic yet contradictory relationship to the homeland. It also demonstrates how new practices of diasporic intimacies are produced by the displacement of migration. The film's representations of the second home (Macau, Manchuria) are further evaluated to critically consider its excentric location as a new ontology for Hong Kong modernity. The diasporas featured in Song of the Exile question the place of home and its condition of belonging. Diasporic intimacy and second homes provide a new ontological and genealogical beginning to considering Hong Kong modernity.
