Emilie Sin-yi Choi

Bio

Sin-yi (Emilie) Choi is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the City University of Hong Kong School of Creative Media. She obtained her MPhil in the Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research focus adopts a media archaeological approach to cultural history and the technological turn in Hong Kong from the 1970s to the present. She has presented at the annual conference of the Association for Asian Studies, EYE Academic Conference, Multiple Decolonialities, and the Making of Asian Commons. She has a chapter forthcoming in the edited volume The 70s Bi-weekly: Autonomous Media, Social Activism and Alternative Cultural Production in 1970s Hong Kong. She is also a board member of the media nonprofit Videotage.

Contributions

Investigating Hong Kong Alternative Cinema: The Formation of Cinephilias in the late 1960s

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Cinephilia is generally known as the feverish love of cinema. [1] In Hong Kong during the 1960s, such affection towards cinema was entangled with the complex sensation and sentiments revolving around Chinese nationalism (“Cultural China”), the British colonial rule and locality during the contesting ideologies in the Cultural Cold War and demonstrated in wide ranging practices. As Thomas Elsaesser proposed, cinephilia began with “topographically site-specific” and “a detour of place and space, a...

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