Hong Kong connections : transnational imagination in action cinema / edited by Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung Li, and Stephen Chan Ching-kiu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morris, Meaghan.

Li, Siu Leung, 1958-

Chan, Stephen Ching-kiu.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Action and adventure films--History and criticism.

Action and adventure films.

Action and adventure films--China--Hong Kong--History and criticism.

China--Hong Kong.

Physical Description:

xvi, 343 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press ; Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2005.

Contents:

Moving body : the interactions between Chinese Opera and action cinema / Yung Sai-shing

Interactions between Japanese and Hong Kong action cinemas / Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting

The myth continues : cinematic Kung Fu in modernity / Siu Leung Li

The fighting condition in Hong Kong cinema : local icons and cultural antidotes for the global popular / Stephen Chan Ching-kiu

Order/anti-order : representation of identity in Hong Kong action movies / Dai Jinhua

Genre as contact Zone: Hong Kong action and Korean hwalkuk / Kim Soyoung

Hong Kong action film and the career of the Telugu Mass hero / S.V. Srinivas

Hong Kong, Hollywood, Bombay : on the function of 'martial art' in the Hindi action cinema / Valentina Vitali

Let's miscegenate : Jackie Chan and his African-American connection / Laleen Jayamanne

The secrets of movement : the influence of Hong Kong action cinema upon the contemporary French avant-garde / Nicole Brenez

At the edge of the cut : an encounter with the Hong Kong style in contemporary action cinema / Adrian Martin

Wuxia redux : Crouching tiger, hidden dragon as a model of late transnational production / Stephen Teo

Hong Kong film and the new cinephilia / David Desser

Action cinema, labour power, and the video market / Paul Willemen

Spectral critiques: tracking "uncanny" filmic paths towards a bio-poetics of trans-Pacific globalization / Rob Wilson

Technoscience culture, embodiment, and wuda pian / Wong Kin-yuen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-324) and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1932643192

193264301X

OCLC:

61278564