The Rheological History Of Hongkong's Film Industry

To strive to trace out the rheology of Hong kong's film industry integrally and profoundly, the dissertation uses the related industrial theories of West Economics to annotate and analyze the development of Hong kong's film industry in different aspects. It opens out the industrial experience of Hong kong's film, and gives some revelations to the development of mainland's film industry. The dissertation consists of five parts.The exordium divides the development history of Hong kong's film industry into different stages. According to the developmental characteristics of Hong kong's film industry itself and the influence of the external politics, economy and culture, the dissertation divides the whole development history of Hong kong's film industry into six stages. They are Preliminary Stage, Mature stage, the First Prosperous Stage, Transitional Stage, the Second Prosperous Stage and Pluralistic Stage. Based on four industrial theories, the following chapters of the dissertation analyze and dissertate the development of Hong kong's film industry in different periods, annotating its rheology in four different dimensions.The first chapter dissertates the rheology of Hong kong's film industrial structure, based on the relationship change between the three elements (Structure-Conduct-Performance) in industry chain of Industrial Organization Theory. In the initial and mature periods, the industrial organization of Hong kong's film industry followed the traditional SCP mode: restricted by its structure, its conducts were the simplest market actions, and its final performances totally determined by its structures and conducts. After the upheaval in the middle and late 1950s, industrial organization of Hong kong's film industry broke through the SCP mode. Performance became the most crucial element. The conduct, especially the structure, began to take performance as a springboard, and the fundamental changes took place in various industrial organizations, including the production and publishing industries.The second chapter dissertates the rheology of industrial mode of Hong kong's film in the interaction between efficiency and innovation, based on economization and strategy balance issue in Transaction Cost Theory. During the course of the Hong kong's film industry development, the rheology of its mode is a process to continuously balance the efficiency and innovation to their optimal collocation. During this course, Hong kong's film industrial mode experienced a rheological process from independent production system, large firm system, satellite system, theatre chains marketing mode to pluralistic mode.The third chapter dissertates the rheology of advantages of competitive resources of Hong kong's film with Strategic Management Theory and Project Management Theory. The first section of this chapter analyzes the rheological track of industrial resources of Hong kong's film with Strategic Management Theory. The rheologyical process of the resources of Hong kong's film industry is a continuously strengthened process of competitive and strategic resources. In this process, Hong kong's film industry gradually got its core competitive advantages, and obtained its sustainable strategic advantages. The second section analyzes how the Hong kong's film industry strategically carried out the projects in the transitional period to obtain sustainable strategic advantages which push the development of film economy.The final chapter of the dissertation consists of two sections. The first section summarizes the rheological rule of Hong kong's film industry in four aspects of structures, modes, resources and projects, and draws a conclusion that the rheology of Hong kong's film industry generally exhibits a process of industrial process from passive to active, from industrial conducts to market oriented actions. At the same time, its industrial competitive advantages continually increased and its industrial projects gradually reach a high level. The second section simply analyzes the development experience of Hong kong's film industry and its revelation to the mainland's film industry from the aspects of industrial structures, modes, competitive advantages, and so on.