Table of Contents

1 The Film Production Company.- 2 Hong Kong Film Industry in Transition.- 3 Bringing the Old to the New: Formation and Development of Milkyway.- 4 From Hong Kong to the Mainland: Milkyway’s Production and Business Practices.- 5 In Defence of Hong Kong: Milkyway Films’ Domestic Critical Reception.- 6 Shaping Hong Kong Cinema’s New Icon: Milkyway at International Film Festivals.- 7 Defining Hong Kong Cinema through Distribution: Milkyway Films in the United States.- 8 Building a Hong Kong Studio Brand: Milkyway’s Changing Image in Overseas Critical Reception.

About the Author

Yi Sun is Lecturer in the College of Media and International Culture at Zhejiang University. Her research interests include screen industries, Chinese-language cinema, film genre, film authorship, and film historiography. She has published in journals such as Asian Cinema, Transnational Cinemas, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, and Adaptation. She has received the 2018 Peter Morris Prize presented by the Film Studies Association of Canada for the best essay published in Canadian Journal of Film Studies.