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This book deals with the 1980s - the 'golden decade' of Hong Kong pop culture - in which a cosmopolitan lifestyle of pop and chic emerged in the city. Bookended by two major historical incidents, the 1980s will probably enter the annals of Hong Kong history as the decade that defined its future after reversion to Mainland China. Having witnessed and experienced the rise of Hong Kong pop culture to unprecedented heights in this decade, the author enhances its context through a story about his own personal belongings. Examining popular genres including television, film, music, fashion, disco and city magazine, this book teases out the distinctive aspects of Hong Kong pop culture that defined (his) Hong Kong. As Hong Kong has been undergoing drastic changes in recent years, it is necessary to point toward new imaginaries by re-examining its development. Toward this end, this book will shed light on an important research area of Hong Kong Studies as an academic discipline.

Popular culture --- Urban communities. --- History --- Hong Kong (China) --- Social life and customs --- Hong Kong cinema, Cantopop, cosmopolitanism, hybridities.

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In this provocative analysis of screen industries in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, Michael Curtin delineates the globalizing pressures and opportunities that since the 1980's have dramatically transformed the terrain of Chinese film and television, including the end of the cold war, the rise of the World Trade Organization, the escalation of democracy movements, and the emergence of an East Asian youth culture. Reaching beyond national frameworks, Curtin examines the prospect of a global Chinese audience that will include more viewers than in the United States and Europe combined. He draws on in-depth interviews with a diverse array of media executives plus a wealth of historical material to argue that this vast and increasingly wealthy market is likely to shake the very foundations of Hollywood's century-long hegemony. Playing to the World's Biggest Audience profiles the leading Chinese commercial studios and telecasters, and delves into the operations of Western conglomerates extending their reach into Asia. Advancing a dynamic and integrative theory of media capital, this innovative book explains the histories and strategies of screen enterprises that aim to become central players in the Global China market and offers an alternative perspective to recent debates about cultural globalization.

Motion picture industry. --- Motion pictures. --- Television broadcasting. --- Motion pictures --- Motion picture industry --- Television broadcasting --- Telecasting --- Television --- Television industry --- Broadcasting --- Mass media --- Film industry (Motion pictures) --- Moving-picture industry --- Cultural industries --- business and industry. --- capitalism. --- capitalist paternalism. --- china. --- chinese commercial studios. --- chinese film. --- chinese media. --- chinese television. --- cold war. --- cultural globalization. --- cultural studies. --- east asian youth culture. --- economics. --- global china market. --- global chinese audience. --- globalization. --- history. --- hong kong cinema. --- hong kong. --- independent studios. --- infrastructure. --- media capital. --- media studies. --- multimedia. --- pan chinese studio system. --- screen industry. --- singapore. --- taiwan. --- world trade organization.