The cinema of Hong Kong : history, arts, identity / edited by Poshek Fu, David Desser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fu, Poshek, 1955-

Desser, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--China--Hong Kong--History.

Motion pictures.

China--Hong Kong.

History.

Physical Description:

333 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Summary:

This volume examines Hong Kong cinema in transnational, historical, and artistic contexts.

Contents:

The kung fu craze: Hong Kong Cinema's first American reception / David Desser

The American connection in early Hong Kong cinema / Law Kar

The 1960s: modernity, youth culture, and Hong Kong Cantonese cinema / Poshek Fu

The 1970s: movement and transition / Stephen Teo

Richness through imperfection: King Hu and the glimpse / David Bordwell

Space, place, and spectacle: the crisis cinema of John Woo / Tony Williams

Besides fists and blood: Michael Hui and Cantonese comedy / Jenny Kwok Wah Lau

The film work of Ann Hui / Patricia Brett Erens

Between nationalism and colonialism: mainland émigrés, marginal culture, and Hong Kong cinema 1937-1941 / Poshek Fu

Urban cinema and the cultural identity of Hong Kong / Leung Ping-Kwan

Rewriting history: Hong Kong nostalgia cinema and its social practice / Natalia Chan Sui Hung

Filming diaspora and identity: Hong Kong and 1997 / Sheldon Lu

Buying American, consuming Hong Kong: cultural commerce, fantasies of identity, and the cinema / Gina Marchetti

Hong Kong electric shadows: a selected bibliography of studies in English / H.C. Li.

Notes:

Originally published: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521776023

9780521776028

OCLC:

49593674