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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cheung, Esther M. K., editor.

Marchetti, Gina, HUA, editor.

Yau, Ching-Mei Esther, editor.

Series:

Wiley-Blackwell companions to national cinemas.

Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Motion pictures.

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

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (642 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, [England] : John Wiley & Sons, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema provides the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of this unique global cinema. By embracing the interdisciplinary approach of contemporary film and cultural studies, this collection navigates theoretical debates while charting a new course for future research in Hong Kong film. * Examines Hong Kong cinema within an interdisciplinary context, drawing connections between media, gender, and Asianstudies, Asian regional studies, Chinese language and cultural studies, global studies, and critical theory * Highlights the often contentious debates that shape current thinking about film as a medium and its possible future * Investigates how changing research on gender, the body, and sexual orientation alter the ways in which we analyze sexual difference in Hong Kong cinema * Charts how developments in theories of colonialism, postcolonialism, globalization, neoliberalism, Orientalism, and nationalism transform our understanding of the economics and politics of the Hong Kong film industry * Explores how the concepts of diaspora, nostalgia, exile, and trauma offer opportunities to rethink accepted ways of understanding Hong Kong's popular cinematic genres and stars

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119066033

1119066034

9781118883549

1118883543

9781118883563

111888356X

9781118883594

1118883594

OCLC:

869367744