A personal vision of the Hong Kong cityscape in Anson Mak's essayistic documentary films One Way Street on a Turntable and On the Edge of a Floating City, We Sing

Michael Anthony INGHAM

A personal vision of the Hong Kong cityscape in Anson Mak's essayistic documentary films One Way Street on a Turntable and On the Edge of a Floating City, We Sing

Michael Anthony INGHAM

Department of English

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Standing in sharp contrast to the predominantly journalistic, expository or vérité documentaries which Hong Kong is recognised for producing, is one of its rare experimental, essayistic documentaries. Anson Hoi Shan Mak’s highly idiosyncratic filmic record of a quasi-Bloomian pilgrimage through traditional districts of Hong Kong, entitled One Way Street on a Turntable (2007), premiered at the Hong Kong International Film Festival in 2007 to mixed critical reviews.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Post-1990 documentary : reconfiguring independence
Publisher	Edinburgh University Press
Pages	151-168
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Print)	9780748694136
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2015

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Post-1990 documentary : reconfiguring independence. Edinburgh University Press, 2015. p. 151-168.

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