Cinema of Hong Kong History, Arts, Identity

Name: Cinema of Hong Kong History, Arts, Identity
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ISBN: 9780521776028

ISBN-10: 0521776023

ISBN-13: 9780521776028

Edition: 2002

Authors: Poshek Fu, David Desser

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Providing an overview of major directors, genres and stars, from its origins to the present, this volume examines Hong Kong cinema in transnational, historical and artistic contexts.

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/25/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Poshek Fu is a professor of history, cinema studies, and East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author ofBetween Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese CinemasandPassivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai.



List of Contributors


Acknowledgments



Introduction



Chronology of Hong Kong Cinema




History



The Kung Fu Craze: Hong Kong Cinema's First American Reception




The American Connection in Early Hong Kong Cinema




The 1960s: Modernity, Youth Culture, and Hong Kong Cantonese Cinema




The 1970s: Movement and Transition




Arts



Richness through Imperfection: King Hu and the Glimpse




Space, Place, and Spectacle: The Crisis Cinema of John Woo




Besides Fists and Blood: Michael Hui and Cantonese Comedy




The Film Work of Ann Hui




Identity



Between Nationalism and Colonialism: Mainland Emigres, Marginal Culture, and Hong Kong Cinema 1937-1941




Urban Cinema and the Cultural Identity of Hong Kong




Rewriting History: Hong Kong Nostalgia Cinema and Its Social Practice




Filming Diaspora and Identity: Hong Kong and 1997




Buying American, Consuming Hong Kong: Cultural Commerce, Fantasies of Identity, and the Cinema




Hong Kong Electric Shadows: A Selected Bibliography of Studies in English



Index