A companion to Hong Kong cinema / edited by Esther M.K. Cheung, Gina Marchetti, and Esther C.M. Yau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Cheung, Esther M. K., editor.

Marchetti, Gina, editor.

Yau, Ching-Mei Esther, editor.

Series:

Wiley-Blackwell companions to national cinemas

Wiley Blackwell companions to national cinemas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Hong Kong.

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

Motion pictures.

Documentary films--China--Hong Kong--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 619 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.

Contents:

Introduction / Esther M.K. Cheung, Gina Marchetti & Esther C.M. Yau

Section A: Critical paradigms: defining Hong Kong cinema studies. Watchful partners, hidden currents: Hong Kong cinema moving into the mainland of China / Esther C.M. Yau

The urban maze: crisis and topography in Hong Kong cinema / Esther M.K. Cheung

Hong Kong cinema as ethnic borderland / Kwai-Cheung Lo

Hong Kong cinema in the age of neoliberalization and mainlandization: Hong Kong SAR new wave as a cinema of anxiety / Mirana May Szeto & Yun-Chung Chen

Commentary: dimensions of Hong Kong cinema / Sheldon Lu

Section B: Critical geographies. Hong Kong cinema's exotic others: re-examining the Hong Kong body in the context of Asian regionalism / Olivia Khoo

Animating the translocal: the Mcdull films as a cultural and visual expression of Hong Kong / Kimburley Wing-Yee Choi & Steve Fore

Globalizing Hong Kong cinema through Japan / David Desser

Creative cinematic geographies through the Hong Kong international film festival / Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong

Postmodernity, Han normativity and Hong Kong cinema / Evans Chan

Commentary: critical geographies / Stephen Yiu-Wai Chu

The gendered body and queer configurations. Feminism, post-feminism, and Hong Kong women filmmakers / Gina Marchetti

Love in the city: the placing of intimacy in urban romance films / Helen Hok-Sze Leung

Regulating queer domesticity in the neoliberal diaspora / Audrey Yue

Commentary: to love is to demand: a very short commentary / Shu-Mei Shih

Hong Kong stars. Return of the dragon: handover, Hong Kong cinema, and Chinese ethno-nationalism / Paul Bowman

Transitional stardom: the case of Jimmy Wang Yu / Tony Williams

Camp stars of androgyny: a study of Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui's body images of desire / Natalia Siu-Hung Chan

Cooling Faye Wong: a cosmopolitical intervention / Kin-Yan Szeto

Commentary: Hong Kong stars and stardom / Gary Bettinson

Section E: narratives and aesthetics. Making merry on time: a feast of nostalgia in watching Chinese New Year films / Fiona Yuk-Wa Law

A pan-Asian cinema of allusion: Going home and Dumplings / Bliss Cua Lim

Double agents, cameos, and the poor man's orchestra: music and place in Chungking Express / Giorgio Biancorosso

Documenting sentiments in video diaries around 1997: archeology of forgotten screen practices / Linda Chiu-Han Lai

Commentary: the dynamics of off-centeredness in Hong Kong cinema / Yingjin Zhang

Section F: screen histories and documentary practices. The lightness of history: screening the past in Hong Kong cinema / Vivian P.Y. Lee

The tales of Fang Peilin and Zhu Shilin: from rethinking Hong Kong cinema to rewriting Chinese film history / Ain-Ling Wong

The documentary film in Hong Kong / Ian Aitken & Mike Ingham

Representations of law in Hong Kong cinema / Marco Wan

Commentary: cinema and the cultural politics of identity: Hong Kong no more? / Stephen Ching-Kiu Chan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Companion to Hong Kong cinema.

ISBN:

9780470659281

0470659289

OCLC:

903688821

Publisher Number:

99995912055