Cathay Box Set: The Cathay Story, Revised Edition
Cathay/MP & GI was a star-studded film studio priding itself on its kaleidoscopic oeuvre. This revised edition contains three more interviews with its star actors Grace Chang, Kelly Lai Chen, and Peter Dunn. Contains 328 pages. In Chinese with a CD-ROM providing the English translation of all articles. Published in March 2009. (Edited by Wong Ain-ling)
ISBN 962-8050-48-6
Contents
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
Modernity, Cold War, and Hong Kong Mandarin 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
Emilie Yeh Yueh-yu
How to be a Man: A Study of Male and Female Masculinities 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]
Urban Imagination in the Films of Nellie Chin Yu and MP & GI
Leung Ping-kwan
The Film Set Battle: When Eileen Chang Meets Lin Dai
Edward Lam
Prolific Oddball: Wong Tin-lam
Sek Kei
A Look at MP & GI Cantonese Films Through the Work of Tso Kea
Li Cheuk-to
Yao Min's 'MP & GI Style'
Wong Kee-chee
Freeze-frame Impressions of MP & GI's Male Stars
Tso Kuei-fang
Helen Li Mei and Roy Chiao
Wong Kee-chee
[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
The Last Days of Cathay Studio: Memories of a Young Assistant
Sek Kei
One Big Happy Family: Grace Chang's Cathay Story
Kelly Lai Chen: Mr Melancholy's MP & GI Days
The World of MP & GI Through the Eyes of Peter Dunn
Biographies
Glossaries
Personalities
Film Titles
Film Organisations
Cathay Box Set: Evan Yang's Autobiography
A Cathay writer-director with a distinguished scholarly quality, Evan Yang (1920-1978) had made such celebrated works as Mambo Girl (1957), Air Hostess (1959), and Forever Yours (1960). This volume is compiled from his manuscripts and photos recently donated by his family.
Contains 154 pages. Published in March 2009. In Chinese. (Written by Evan Yang; edited by Grace Ng)
ISBN 962-8050-49-4
Priced at HK$200 per box set. 1