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The cultural construction of child images: a study on films in Hong Kong from the 60s to the 90s.

Tsang, Chung-yan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003. / Filmography: p. 182-183. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 184-189). / Abstracts in English and Chinese ; appendix also in Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.2 / 論文摘要 --- p.3 / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.4 / CONTENTS --- p.6 / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction / Chapter 1.1 --- Empirical Puzzles and Theoretical Concerns --- p.10 / Chapter 1.2 --- Overview of The Thesis --- p.17 / Chapter 1.3 --- Literature Review --- p.17 / Chapter 1.3.1 --- Understanding the Image Construction of the Minorities through Films / Chapter 1.3.2 --- How the Images of the Blacks Get Represented - Blacks' Imagesin Films / Chapter 1.3.3 --- How Women Get Represented under the Male Gaze 一 Gender Representations in Films / Chapter 1.3.4 --- Childhood ´ؤ A Socially Constructed Concept / Chapter 1.3.5 --- How the Child Images are Constructed? - Literature Related to the Construction of Child Images / Chapter 1.4 --- Theoretical Framework - Foucauldian Concepts in Understanding Child Images --- p.33 / Chapter 1.4.1 --- Double Marginalization - Children as Victims / Chapter 1.4.2 --- Disciplinary Power over Children - Children as Moral Agents / Chapter 1.4.3 --- The Multiple Network of Power - Children as Anonymous Objects / Chapter 1.4.4 --- Care of the Children - Children as Protagonists / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- Methodological Design and An Overview of the Hong Kong Film Industry / Chapter 2.1 --- Casing the Films ´ؤ Introduction to Methodological Design --- p.44 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Content Analysis / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Ideological Approach / Chapter 2.2 --- The Development of the Hong Kong Film Industry and Its Relatedness with the Changes of the Child Images --- p.51 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Formative and Developing 50s Film Industry - Time for Exploration / Chapter 2.2.2 --- The Golden Year of the 60s Film Industry - Time for Early Harvest / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Discontinuity of the Prosperity of the Film Industry in the 70s - Time for Reconstruction / Chapter 2.2.4 --- Golden Years in Both 80s to 90s - Time For Innovation and Globalization / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- Double Marginalization - Children as Victims / Chapter 3.1 --- Subordinating to the Adults ´ؤ Child Images as Sufferers in the Social Margin --- p.59 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Great Devotion (1961) - Children in Extreme Poverty / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Father is Back (1962) -Two Siblings Struggled for Survival without Parental Care / Chapter 3.1.3 --- A Lily in the Storm (1962) ´ؤ A Boy Who was Mistreated by His Stepmother / Chapter 3.2 --- Acceptance for Children as a Separate Entity? ´ؤ An analysis of the Child Images in the Subordinating Context in Films --- p.66 / Chapter 3.3 --- Absence of Child Images in the 70s - A Turn of the Child Images --- p.74 / Chapter 3.4 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.78 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- Disciplinary Power over Children - Children as Moral Agents / Chapter 4.1 --- Sacrifice and Respect - The Typical Child Images in the1960s Melodramas --- p.81 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Filial Piety (1960) - Children Sacrificing Themselves for the Family / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Filial Piety that Moves Heaven (1960) 一 Children Saved Their Parents through Adventurous Experience / Chapter 4.1.3 --- The Seven Kids (1961) - Appropriate Training for the Children to Become Independent / Chapter 4.1.4 --- Little Artists (1962) - Showing Respect and Gratitude to the Teacher / Chapter 4.2 --- Child Images as Moral Agents under the Influence of the Disciplinary Power --- p.87 / Chapter 4.3 --- "The Recurrence in the 1980s and Unapparent ""Moral Occult"" in the 90´ةs" --- p.94 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Daughter and Father (1981) - Repaying the Indebtedness to the Adoptive Father / Chapter 4.4 --- Social Context for the Rise of the Child Image as Moral Agents --- p.98 / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- Victimization and Objectification - Children as Anonymous Objects / Chapter 5.1 --- "Defining Objectification - Children were Objects Portrayed as ""Something""" --- p.101 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Goodbye Mammie (1986) - How Orphans Led Their Life in the Orphanage / Chapter 5.1.2 --- All about Ah Long (1989) - An Dilemma for Children who were Placed between Parents / Chapter 5.1.3 --- The Story of my Son (1990) 一 To Show the Extreme Suffering of the Children / Chapter 5.1.4 --- The Son on the Run (1991) - A Child was Born without Father or Mother / Chapter 5.2 --- Objectification of Child Images 一 Hidden Power over the Fate of Children --- p.114 / Chapter 5.3 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.122 / Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- Weapons of the Weak - Children as Protagonists / Chapter 6.1 --- Introduction to the Films Selected --- p.124 / Chapter 6.1.1 --- Siu Chong Yuen (1961 - The Child who Judged the Critical Moment / Chapter 6.1.2 --- "Little Detective (1963) - Adult Mind, Child Body" / Chapter 6.1.3 --- "Daddy, Father, Papa (1991) - The Hong Kong Version of Home Alone" / Chapter 6.2 --- How Children Empower Themselves? --- p.135 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Sporadic Show Time for Children / Chapter 6.3 --- "Room for Having Dialogue, Resistance and Subversion ´ؤ How Children were Portrayed as Protagonists" --- p.140 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- A Protagonist - Direct Dialogue and Resistance to Redefine the Boundary / Chapter 6.4 --- Concluding Remarks - Complex Relational Network of Power --- p.144 / Chapter CHAPTER 7 --- Conclusion / Chapter 7.1 --- Four Categories - How Children were Getting Represented in the Hong Kong Films --- p.147 / Chapter 7.1.1 --- Children as Victims / Chapter 7.1.2 --- Children as Moral Agents / Chapter 7.1.3 --- Children as Anonymous Objects / Chapter 7.1.4 --- Children as Protagonists / Chapter 7.2 --- What is More? --- p.151 / Chapter 7.2.1 --- A Possible Supplement for the Foucauldian Framework / Chapter 7.2.2 --- Theorizing the Construction of Child Images ´ؤ A Reconsideration of the Hong Kong Cultural Studies for Adding in the Age Dimension / Chapter 7.2.3 --- A Call for Reconsideration - The Predicament of the Current Hong Kong Cultural Studies / Chapter 7.2.4 --- The Need for Inserting the Age Dimension in Cultural Studies / APPENDICE --- p.162 / FILMOGRAPHY --- p.181 / REFERENCES --- p.183

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_324354
Date January 2003
ContributorsTsang, Chung-yan., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Sociology.
Source SetsThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
LanguageEnglish, Chinese
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, bibliography
Formatprint, 189 leaves ; 30 cm.
CoverageChina, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong
RightsUse of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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