A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cheung, Esther M. K.; Yau, Esther C. M.; Marchetti, Gina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema provides the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of this unique global cinema. By embracing the interdisciplinary approach of contemporary film and cultural studies, this collection navigates theoretical debates while charting a new course for future research in Hong Kong film. * Examines Hong Kong cinema within an interdisciplinary context, drawing connections between media, gender, and Asian studies, Asian regional studies, Chinese language and cultural studies, global studies, and critical theory * Highlights the often contentious debates that shape current thinking about film as a medium and its possible future * Investigates how changing research on gender, the body, and sexual orientation alter the ways in which we analyze sexual difference in Hong Kong cinema * Charts how developments in theories of colonialism, postcolonialism, globalization, neoliberalism, Orientalism, and nationalism transform our understanding of the economics and politics of the Hong Kong film industry * Explores how the concepts of diaspora, nostalgia, exile, and trauma offer opportunities to rethink accepted ways of understanding Hong Kong's popular cinematic genres and stars

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118883518
• Artikelnr.: 43095797

Autorenporträt

Esther M.K. Cheung is Department Chairperson, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, at the University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Fruit Chan's Made in Hong Kong (2009) and In Pursuit of Independent Visions in Hong Kong Cinema (2010). Gina Marchetti is Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, at the University of Hong Kong. Her books include Romance and the "Yellow Peril" Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction (1993) and Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's INFERNAL AFFAIRS--The Trilogy (2007). Esther C.M. Yau is Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, at the University of Hong Kong. Her books include At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World (editor, 2001) and New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics (co-editor, 1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments x Notes on Contributors xi Foreword xviii Ackbar Abbas
Introduction 1 Esther M.K. Cheung, Gina Marchetti, and Esther C.M. Yau Part
I Critical Paradigms: Defining Hong Kong Cinema Studies 15 1 Watchful
Partners, Hidden Currents: Hong Kong Cinema Moving into the Mainland of
China 17 Esther C.M. Yau 2 The Urban Maze: Crisis and Topography in Hong
Kong Cinema 51 Esther M.K. Cheung 3 Hong Kong Cinema as Ethnic Borderland
71 Kwai?]cheung Lo 4 Hong Kong Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalization and
Mainlandization: Hong Kong SAR New Wave as a Cinema of Anxiety 89 Mirana
May Szeto and Yun?]chung Chen Commentary: Dimensions of Hong Kong Cinema
116 Sheldon Lu Part II Critical Geographies 121 5 Hong Kong Cinema's Exotic
Others: Re?]examining the Hong Kong Body in the Context of Asian
Regionalism 123 Olivia Khoo 6 Animating the Translocal: The McDull Films as
a Cultural and Visual Expression of Hong Kong 140 Kimburley Wing-yee Choi
and Steve Fore 7 Globalizing Hong Kong Cinema Through Japan 168 David
Desser 8 Creative Cinematic Geographies Through the Hong Kong International
Film Festival 185 Cindy Hing?]yuk Wong 9 Postmodernity, Han Normativity,
and Hong Kong Cinema 207 Evans Chan Commentary: Critical Geographies 225
Stephen Yiu?]wai Chu Part III The Gendered Body and Queer Configurations
235 10 Feminism, Postfeminism, and Hong Kong Women Filmmakers 237 Gina
Marchetti 11 Love In The City: The Placing of Intimacy in Urban Romance
Films 265 Helen Hok?]sze Leung 12 Regulating Queer Domesticity in the
Neoliberal Diaspora 284 Audrey Yue Commentary: To Love is to Demand: A Very
Short Commentary 303 Shu?]mei Shih Part IV Hong Kong Stars 305 13 Return of
the Dragon: Handover, Hong Kong Cinema, and Chinese Ethno?]nationalism 307
Paul Bowman 14 Transitional Stardom: The Case of Jimmy Wang Yu 322 Tony
Williams 15 Camp Stars of Androgyny: A Study of Leslie Cheung and Anita
Mui's Body Images of Desire 341 Natalia Siu?]hung Chan 16 Cooling Faye
Wong: A Cosmopolitical Intervention 359 Kin?]Yan Szeto Commentary: Hong
Kong Stars and Stardom 379 Gary Bettinson Part V Narratives and Aesthetics
389 17 Making Merry on Time: A Feast of Nostalgia in Watching Chinese New
Year Films 391 Fiona Yuk?]wa Law 18 A Pan?]Asian Cinema of Allusion: Going
Home and Dumplings 410 Bliss Cua Lim 19 Double Agents, Cameos, and the Poor
Man's Orchestra: Music and Place in Chungking Express 440 Giorgio
Biancorosso 20 Documenting Sentiments in Video Diaries around 1997:
Archeology of Forgotten Screen Practices 462 Linda Chiu?]han Lai
Commentary: The Dynamics of Off?]Centeredness in Hong Kong Cinema 489
Yingjin Zhang Part VI Screen Histories and Documentary Practices 499 21 The
Lightness of History: Screening the Past in Hong Kong Cinema 501 Vivian
P.Y. Lee 22 The Tales of Fang Peilin and Zhu Shilin: From Rethinking Hong
Kong Cinema to Rewriting Chinese Film History 523 Ain?]ling Wong 23 The
Documentary Film in Hong Kong 539 Ian Aitken and Mike Ingham 24
Representations of Law in Hong Kong Cinema 560 Marco Wan Commentary: Cinema
and the Cultural Politics of Identity: Hong Kong No More? A Commentary on
the Verge of Postcolonial Locality 577 Stephen Ching?]kiu Chan Filmography
585 Index 602

Rezensionen

"Given the drastic and dramatic changes in Hong Kong and its cinema in the past two decades, A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema is the perfect travelling partner for finding one's way through the twists, turns, and reversals of the city's film history and contemporary scene. Vast changes in economics, technologies, politics, cultures, and new relations to the Mainland and Asian neighbors make a guide essential, and this anthology provides needed signposts and detailed maps of an urban cultural geography ranging from underground media passages to lofty screen overlooks. Beginning student or fanboy/fangirl enthusiast, determined critic or advanced researcher, all will find this companion a boon friend and reliable buddy."

Chuck Kleinhans, Northwestern University and Co-editor, JUMP CUT