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.

Physical Description:

xvi, 343 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world's most popular cultural genres: action cinema. Hong Kong action films have proved popular over the decades with audiences worldwide, and they have seized the imaginations of filmmakers working in many different cultural traditions and styles. How do we account for this appeal, which changes as it crosses national borders?Hong Kong Connections brings leading film scholars together to explore the circulation of Hong Kong cinema in Japan, Korea, India, Australia, France, and the United States, as well as its links with Taiwan, Singapore, and the Chinese mainland. In the process, this collection examines diverse cultural contexts for action cinema's popularity and the problems involved in the transnational study of globally popular forms, suggesting that in order to grasp the history of Hong Kong action cinema's influence we need to bring out the differences as well as the links that constitute popularity.

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-70444-3

9786612704444

988-220-158-X

OCLC:

642690004