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Asian Cinema 33.2 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that Asian Cinema 33.2 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘Documentary and Democracy, Hong Kong’

What is the relationship between documentary and democracy in the Hong Kong context? As the articles that comprise this Special Issue of Asian Cinema (AC) will illustrate, a growing democratic practice in the city – one independent of institutional structures involving elected representation under the much hyped but increasingly degraded ‘One Country, Two Systems’ political model – has mysteriously emerged. Deprived of access to conventional forms of representative government, supposedly ‘apathetic’ Hong Kong people have cultivated the growth of grassroots democracy through collective participation and, in response to the suppression of dissenting views in public contexts, an online activism and solidarity that is increasingly extra-territorial.

Including the Open Access article ‘The making of the citizen-spectator in postmillennial Hong Kong: Authorial and spectatorial engagement with independent documentary films' by Helena Wu.

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Aims & Scope

Asian Cinema is a peer reviewed journal devoted to the advancing of Asian cinema studies throughout the world. It offers a platform for scholars, teachers and students who seek to form and promote communities of Asian cinema studies within Asia and beyond. Whether understood in the terms of traditional (celluloid) or cross-media (digital) formats, Asian cinema has wide geographical dispersion, and diverse practices and histories. It is the flagship publication of the Asian Cinema Studies Society, established in 1984. Asian Cinema has been published continuously since Vol. 7 (1995), serving as a key resource for Asian film researchers, teachers and students.

Issue 33.2

Editorial

Introduction: Hong Kong independent documentaries and their visibility

MIKE INGHAM AND KENNY K. K. NG

Articles

Authoritarianism, the struggle for current affairs public service broadcasting and Radio Television Hong Kong

IAN AITKEN

Too much reality? Reflections on the educational-observational film world of Tammy Cheung and Augustine Lam

MIKE INGHAM

The ‘We’ in two pairs of documentaries about protests by The 70’s Biweekly syndicate and the 2019 Hong Kong Documentary Workers

JESSICA YEUNG

Hong Kong independent political documentary under the regulating dispositif: Inside the Red Brick Wall and beyond