Compare and contrast two of the three following young cinemas: China's Fifth Generation, the Hong Kong New Wave, the Taiwanese New Wave. What factors enabled the directors working within these movements to break into filmmaking? In what ways did the foremost directors in each country deviate from the narrative and stylistic conventions of earlier trends or of contemporaneous popular genres? What factors contributed to the decline of these young cinemas?

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