Extraterritorial cinema: Shanghai jazz and post-war Hong Kong Mandarin musicals. Issue 1 (1st March 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fan, Victor
• Is Part Of: Soundtrack. Volume 6:Issue 1/2(2014)
• Page Start: 33
• Page End: 52
• Publication Date: 2014-03-01
• Subjects: Motion picture soundtracks -- Periodicals; Motion picture music -- Periodicals; 781.542
• DOI: 10.1386/st.6.1-2.33_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-4193

Abstract

During the 1930s, jazz in Shanghai (shidai qu /music of the time), in a culturally, politically and musically hybrid form, negotiated the contesting sociopolitical values and cultural imaginations in the semicolonial city. In this article, Victor Fan contextualizes the re-emergence of the Shanghai jazz in the Hong Kong Mandarin musicals between 1945 and 1949, and uses the film Chang xiangsi («»)/An All-Consuming Love (He Zhaozhang, 1947) to examine how this genre re-appropriates this musical style to renegotiate the film-makers and spectators' conflicting political affiliations and traumatic memories, what Fan calls 'extraterritorial consciousness'.