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

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.