The Cinema of Stephen Chow / edited by Gary Bettinson and Vivian P.Y. Lee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bettinson, Gary, editor.

Lee, Vivian P.Y., editor.

Series:

Global East Asian Screen Cultures.

Global East Asian Screen Cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comedy films--History and criticism.

Comedy films.

Martial arts films--History and criticism.

Martial arts films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

An in-depth exploration of the stardom and authorship of Stephen Chow Sing-chi, one of Hong Kong cinema's most enduringly popular stars and among its most commercially successful directors. In the West, Stephen Chow is renowned as the ground-breaking director and star of global blockbusters such as Kung Fu Hustle (2004) and Shaolin Soccer (2001). Among Hong Kong audiences, Chow is celebrated as the leading purveyor of local comedy, popularising the so-called mo-lei-tau ("gibberish") brand of Cantonese vernacular humour, and cultivating a style of madcap comedy that often masks a trenchant social commentary. This volume approaches Chow from a diverse range of critical perspectives. Each of the essays, written by a host of renowned international scholars, offers compelling new interpretations of familiar hits such as From Beijing with Love (1994) and Journey to the West (2013). The detailed case studies of seminal local and global movies provide overdue critical attention to Chow's filmmaking, highlighting the aesthetic power, economic significance, and cultural impact of his films in both domestic and global markets.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Figures

Contributors

Introduction

Part I: Stephen Chow and the Hong Kong Television and Film Industries

Chapter 1: Stephen Chow and the Hong Kong Film Industry of the 1990s-Early 2000s

Chapter 2: From Sing Kid to Master Sing: Stephen Chow and Labor Management in the Hong Kong and Mainland Film Industry

Chapter 3: King of Hong Kong Comedy: The Making of the "Stephen Chow Film"

Part II: Auteurism, Visuality, and Genre

Chapter 4: Stephen Chow, King of Comedy Auteurs

Chapter 5: Stephen Chow's Visual Comedy

Chapter 6: Spy Films with Clumsy Spies: Stephen Chow's Response to the James Bond Craze

Part III: The Bruce Lee Connection: Remaking the Comic Kung Fu Hero

Chapter 7: Descendant of the Dragon: Stephen Chow, Postmodernism, and the Legacy of Bruce Lee

Chapter 8: Way of the Intercepting Pun: Language and the Body in Stephen Chow's Carnival of Kung Fu

Chapter 9: "Bruce Lee Is My Idol": Kung Fu Comedy, Nonsense, and Nostalgia

Part IV: Performing the Comic in the (Post)colonial, Postsocialist Era

Chapter 10: Precarious Lives through Stephen Chow's Comic Lens: Speculation, Caricature, and Precariat

Chapter 11: Stephen Chow's Trickster: An Elasticity of Mind and Body

Chapter 12: The Myth of Resilience in Stephen Chow's Post-CEPA Films: Kung Fu Hustle and The New King of Comedy

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350362154

1350362158

9781350362161

1350362166

9781350362147

135036214X

OCLC:

1450106807