Enoch Yee-lok Tam is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Studies at Lingnan University. His research engages with the historiography of Chinese-language film, Hong Kong film history and film policy, and East Asia’s creative and media industries. Currently, he is working on a book project examining the development of Hong Kong independent film in the post-handover period. He co-authored Indiescape Hong Kong: Critical Essays and Interviews (2018), a collection of critical essays about local independent films and interviews of independent filmmakers.
Enoch Yee-lok Tam
Contributions
The First Generation of Hong Kong Cinephiles: Yinguang
Hong Kong has enjoyed a long film history, which dates back to as early as the invention of film. Recent scholarship has begun to pay attention to the early screen culture of Hong Kong cinema. These findings paved the way for exploring the cinephilic culture in Hong Kong that has taken shape since the mid-1920s, when local critics and movie lovers began to group themselves to form cine clubs and unions and published film magazines. Yinguang (銀光) was