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Article: Of ghosts and gangsters: Capitalist cultural production and the Hong Kong Film Industry
Title | Of ghosts and gangsters: Capitalist cultural production and the Hong Kong Film Industry |
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Keywords | media ethnography Hong Kong ghosts capitalist production production studies |
Issue Date | 2012 |
Citation | Visual Anthropology Review, 2012, v. 28, n. 1, p. 32-49 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This article contends that ghosts and gangsters are not merely popular genres in the Hong Kong film industry; they are also legitimate participants in the film production process itself, influencing financial, creative, and logistical resources and decisions. Film personnel's accounts of the possession and protection of their bodies by members of the cosmological and criminal underworlds, particularly in location filming in graveyards and gangster turf as well as ritual payments and appeasements made to the underworlds, reveal the diverse risks and cultural practices in film production. This article argues that despite the rationalization of commercial filmmaking, " enchantments" in the form of religion and feudalistic crime linger within capitalist production. © 2012 by the American Anthropological Association. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/213964 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 0.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.238 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Martin, Sylvia J. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-19T13:41:23Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-08-19T13:41:23Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Visual Anthropology Review, 2012, v. 28, n. 1, p. 32-49 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1058-7187 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/213964 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This article contends that ghosts and gangsters are not merely popular genres in the Hong Kong film industry; they are also legitimate participants in the film production process itself, influencing financial, creative, and logistical resources and decisions. Film personnel's accounts of the possession and protection of their bodies by members of the cosmological and criminal underworlds, particularly in location filming in graveyards and gangster turf as well as ritual payments and appeasements made to the underworlds, reveal the diverse risks and cultural practices in film production. This article argues that despite the rationalization of commercial filmmaking, " enchantments" in the form of religion and feudalistic crime linger within capitalist production. © 2012 by the American Anthropological Association. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Visual Anthropology Review | - |
dc.subject | media ethnography | - |
dc.subject | Hong Kong | - |
dc.subject | ghosts | - |
dc.subject | capitalist production | - |
dc.subject | production studies | - |
dc.title | Of ghosts and gangsters: Capitalist cultural production and the Hong Kong Film Industry | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1548-7458.2012.01109.x | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84861961677 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 28 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 32 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 49 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1548-7458 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000211319500003 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1058-7187 | - |