The Cathay Story
The productions of Cathay / MP & GI have themselves become a myth of Hong Kong cinema. What accounts for its radiance and elegance? And why was the audience broken-hearted to see its decline? The Cathay Story may offer a little clue.... 400 page thick with 16 colour pages. Bilingual in Chinese and English. Published in 2002, priced at HK$130. Currently out of stock. A Revised Edition newly released in March 2009. (Edited by Wong Ain-ling)
ISBN 962-8050-16-8
Contents
Preface
Wong Ain-ling
Sun ‧ Moon ‧ Stars
The Grand Cathay Stage
A Southeast Asian Tycoon and His Movie Dream:
Loke Wan Tho and MP & GI
Stephanie Chung Po-yin
The Cathay Organisation and Hong Kong Cinema
Yu Mo-wan
Hong Kong and Singapore: A History of the Cathay Cinema
Poshek Fu
A Glimpse of MP & GI's Creative/Production Situation:
Some Speculations, Some Doubts
Law Kar
Notes on MP & GI
Shu Kei
Cathay and the Wuxia Movie
Stephen Teo
Crossing Borders
Vampires, Heroes and Jesters: A History of Cathay Keris
Timothy P. Barnard
Taiwan: The Transnational Battlefield of Cathay and Shaws
Yeh Yueh-yu
A Study of Genderisation and the Representation of Masculinity in You were Meant for Me
Yau Ching
Women who Cross Borders: MP & GI's Modernity Programme
Mary Wong
The Popular and the Classical: Reminiscences on The Wild, Wild Rose
Leo Lee Ou-fan
From The Love Parade to My Kingdom for a Husband:
Hollywood Musicals and Cantonese Opera Films of the 1950s
Yung Sai-shing
Strangers in Paradise
Michael Lam
Close-ups
Elegant Trails of the Quill:
A Preliminary Study of Scripts by Nellie Chin Yu
Leung Ping-kwan
The Film Set Battle: When Eileen Chang Meets Lin Dai
Edward Lam
Prolific Oddball: Wang Tianlin
Sek Kei
A Look at MP & GI Cantonese Films Through the Work of Tso Kea
Li Cheuk-to
The 'MP & GI Style' in Yao Min's Film Music
Wong Kee-chee
Freeze-frame Impressions of MP & GI's Male Stars
Tso Kuei-fang
Flashbacks
From Distribution to Production: Albert Odell on a Key Cathay Moment
Making Cantonese Films: Tau Hon-fun Remembers
My MP & GI Days
Kei Shang-tong
Last Person Carrying the Torch:
Meileen Choo on Cathay's Family Legacy Meileen Choo
The Last Days of Cathay Studio: Memories of a Young Assistant
Sek Kei
Biographies
Filmographies
Glossaries
Indices
Acknowledgements