전후 홍콩 영화와 동아시아 문화냉전의 절합 - 1940년대 후반부터 1950년대를 중심으로

Abstract

This paper explores the role and meaning of Hong Kong Cinema in the process of articulation between East Asian regional order and global cultural Cold-War from 1945 to 1960. Hong Kong had been on the border between two ideological camps, the leftist pro-CCP and the rightist pro-KMT Both camps were able to coexist and compete to achieve cultural hegemony not only in Hong Kong, but also in East Asia. The Hong Kong cinema was an critical battle field for media during the cultural Cold War in East Asia. Hong Kong was the only country which had the ability to produce and distribute films into the international film market through an overseas Chinese network in East Asia, especially in Malaysia and Singapore. The formation of the cultural Cold War in Hong Kong film industry was started from the discord and struggle between leftists and rightists who had immigrated from mainland China, especially from Shanghai during the second Chinese civil war. During the 1950s, the outspoken propaganda war had been gradually dismissed and substituted by more commercialized and more covert cultural Cold war.