Wednesday, August 30, 2006

現代萬歲:光藝的都市風華


黃愛玲編 (2006) 《現代萬歲:光藝的都市風華》 香港:香港電影資料館。
[English edition: The Glorious Modernity of Kong Ngee]
  • Topical study of a prominent film production company in Hong Kong in the late 1950s to 1960s.
  • Just the part on oral history is already worth the ticket - includes stories of prominent figures from the 1960s Hong Kong Cantonese cinema, such as Lung Kong (龍剛), Nam Hung (南紅), Tse Yin (謝賢), and my favourite Ka Ling (嘉玲), as well as the founder of Kong Ngee, among others.

香港影視業百年


鍾寶賢 (2004) 《香港影視業百年》 香港:三聯。
  • Substantial and ambitious survey of the history of Hong Kong film and television industries.
  • Would be interesting to see how a historian who specialises in economic history presents the story of the cinema and television.

波係圓o既


伍晃榮 (2005) 《波係圓o既》 香港:經濟日報出版社。
  • Bought this book solely for the wealth of historical information that I expect it to contain.
  • It does touch on the long-forgotten incident of TVB news stealing footages from RTV in the late 1970s.