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The First Book-length Study On Hong Kong As A Site Of Colonial Screen Practice In The Early 20th Century. Hong Kong Is Known As An Entrepôt In Its Colonial History, But Its Place In Early Cinema Remains Unwritten. As A Short History On The Colonial Screen Of Hong Kong, The Book Covers Circulation, Exhibition, Regulation, Consumption, Reception, And Social Place Of Motion Pictures, From The Time When Cinematograph First Arrived In The Colony In 1897 To The Late 1920s When Hong Kong Began To Emerge As A Film Entrepôt In South China. Drawing On The Concepts Of Screen Practice (projecting Moving Images For The Public), Dispositif Or Dispositive (deployment, Apparatus), Kinematography (motion Pictures Before Cinema), And Entrepôt, Colonial Screen Presents A History Of Early Film In Hong Kong Unknown Before. This History Traces The Transition From Film Exhibition As A Tie-in With Staged Entertainment To A Full-fledged Attraction Of Its Own, Acquiring A Niche Position In Local Society-- Provided By Publisher.