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Wong Kar-wai's Happy together / Jeremy Tambling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tambling, Jeremy.
- Series:
- New Hong Kong cinema.
- [The new Hong Kong cinema]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wong, Kar-wai, 1958---Criticism and interpretation.
- Wong, Kar-wai.
- Happy together (Motion picture).
- Motion pictures--Biography.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (139 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book shows two Chinese gay men in Buenos Aires and reflects on Hong Kong's past and future by probing masculinity, aggression, identity, and homosexuality. It also gives a reading of Latin America, perhaps as an allegory of Hong Kong as another post-colonial society.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction : approaching the film
- 2. Happy together and allegory
- 3. Contexts : why Buenos Aires?
- 4. Contexts : the road movie
- 5. Reading the film
- 6. Happy together and homosexuality
- 7. Happy together, Hong Kong and melancholy
- 8. Epilogue : Happy together and In the mood for love
- Notes
- Filmography
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliography (p. [119]-122) and filmography (p. [115]-117).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-70963-1
- 9786612709630
- 988-8053-35-3
- OCLC:
- 650500875
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