Ian Aitken is Professor in the Department of Cinema and TV at Hong Kong Baptist University. Michael Ingham is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
"For too long Hong Kong documentary has itself constituted a kind
of structuring absence within the region's cinema - a mode of
politically-engaged filmmaking apparently truant from Hong Kong
film history. Aitken and Ingham's book redresses the matter, and
goes a long way to making the forgotten heritage of Hong Kong
documentary present and vital. If the book elicits from the reader
a rewarding sense of discovery, this satisfaction is qualified only
by the knowledge that many of the films cited are lost, damaged, or
languishing in archives. One hopes that ong Kong Documentary Film -
and the related scholarship surely to follow in its path - will
hasten the wider dissemination of the documentary films discussed
here and those yet to be discovered." -- Gary Bettinson, ew Review
of Film and Television Studies
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