[𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡: 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐬]

📆𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞 / 日期: April 24, 2024 (Wednesday) / 2024年4月24日(星期三)
🕰️𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 / 時間: 10:30 AM – 12: 00 NN (HKT) / 上午10時30分至中午12時正(香港時間)
🏠𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 / 地點: University Bookstore, CUHK (YIA, 1/F) / 大學書店, 香港中文大學康本國際學術園一樓
𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 / 語言: English / 英文

Conducted in English. All are welcome.

𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13685680

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭:
What were Hong Kong crime films like before they became a local, regional, and eventually global success story? How did colonial film censors influence the development of Hong Kong genre cinema, and the crime film in particular? And how can we think through the relationship between crime films and their social context? In this talk, Dr. Kristof Van den Troost will discuss these and other topics covered in his new book, Hong Kong Crime Films: Criminal Realism, Censorship and Society, 1947-1986 (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).

🎤𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫:
𝐃𝐫. 𝐊𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐟 𝐕𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐭 is Assistant Professor at the Centre for China Studies, CUHK. He has published widely on Chinese-language genre filmmaking, the history of Hong Kong film censorship, and Hong Kong crime films and independent cinema.

🎤𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐭:
𝐃𝐫. 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐡-𝐓𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐧 is Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Hong Kong Metropolitan University. Dr. Chen has published in, amongst others, A Companion to Wong Kar-wai (Wiley Blackwell), the Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Frames Cinema Journal, and Sound Stage Screen.

𝐄𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐲: jefferytse@cuhk.edu.hk