GOLDEN HARVEST: Leading Change in Changing Times (chinese language with english translation CD)
Po Fung and Lau Yam (Editors)
Hong Kong Film Archive, 2013
Softcover, 19 x 27 cm - 308 pages with many color & BW photos
LIKE NEW CONDITION
Content: Preface (Po Fung) - Essays: The Organisational Structure and Developmental History of Golden Harvest (Po Fung); The Vicissitudes of Golden Studios: From Factory-Oriented Production to Star System and Satellite Operation (Sek Kei); Golden Harvest's Outreach Strategy and Competitive Fronts in Thailand and Korea During Its Early Years (Law Kar); From Shaw Brothers to Golden Harvest: Raymond Chow and Japan Kinnia (Yau Shuk-ting); More Detour Than Legacy: Golden Harvest's Hollywood Gambit (Sam Ho); Mischievous Urban Fantasia: Michael Hui's Comic Mode (Ernest Chan); Sammo Hung, the One and Only (Lam Chiu-wing); The Kid, the Cop, the Adventurer (Cheng Chuen-wai); The Female Kung Fu Chop in Golden Harvest's Films of the 1970s (Stephen Teo); Like Brother, Like Sister: Angela Mao, the ‘Female Dragon' in the Eyes of Japanese Fans (Udagawa Koyo); From Wuxia to Comedy: Lo Wei and John Woo's Early Works (Matthew Cheng); Middle-Class Comedies by Mobile Film Productions (Wong Ain-ling); [Reminiscences] The Way of the Big Boss: Interview with Raymond Chow; Good Business is the Best Art: Louis Sit on the Management Style of Golden Harvest; Riding High on Big Tides: Albert Lee on Overseas Distribution of Golden Harvest's Films [Appendices] The Golden Harvest Chronology; Profiles Acknowledgements
The 1970s were a time when the baby-boomer generation entered adolescence and Hong Kong cinema underwent a major transition. Golden Harvest was one of the film companies that came on the scene during that period. With a flexible mode of operation, Golden Harvest gave free rein to its filmmakers and let their talents shine. It quickly rose to prominence as the biggest player in the industry, opening up global markets and bringing out a wealth of quality productions throughout the years. Golden Harvest: Leading Change in Changing Times traces the studio's development and its varied achievements with a collection of essays and oral history interviews, supplemented by filmmakers' biographies, and more.