At full speed : Hong Kong cinema in a borderless world / Esther C.M. Yau, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yau, Ching-Mei Esther.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

351p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2001.

Summary:

Breathtaking swordplay and nostalgic love, Peking opera and Chow Yun-Fat's cult followers-these are some of the elements of the vivid and diverse urban imagination that find form and expression in the thriving Hong Kong cinema. All receive their due in At Full Speed, a volume that captures the remarkable range and energy of a cinema that borrows, invents, and reinvents across the boundaries of time, culture, and conventions.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World

Part I. Hong Kong's New Wave Cinema

1. An Overview of Hong Kong's New Wave Cinema

2. The Emergence of the Hong Kong New Wave

Part ll. In Action: Entertainment, Aesthetics, and Reinventions

3. Aesthetics in Action: Kungfu, Gunplay, and Cinematic Expressivity

4. The Killer: Cult Film and Transcultural (Mis)Reading

5. Life Imitates Entertainment: Home and Dislocation in the Films of Jackie Chan

6. Tsui Hark: National Style and Polemic

7. Hong Kong Hysteria: Martial Arts Tales from a Mutating World

8. Women on the Edges of Hong Kong Modernity: The Films of Ann Hui

Part III. A Culture of Disappearance: Nostalgia, Nonsense, and Dislocation

9. A Souvenir of Love

10. Film and Enigmatization: Nostalgia, Nonsense, and Remembering

11. Transnational Exchanges, Questions of Culture, and Global Cinema: Defining the Dynamics of Changing Relationships

12. Transnationalization of the Local in Hong Kong Cinema of the 1990s

13. The Intimate Spaces of Wong Kar-wai

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-322) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8969-5

OCLC:

171126684