Meaghan Morris / Siu Leung Li / Stephen Ching-Kiu Chan

Hong Kong Connections

Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema
Herausgeber: Morris, Meaghan; Ching-Kiu, Stephen Chan; Li, Siu Leung

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Collection of essays that look at Hong Kong action films as a popular and global genre.

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"This book examines the historical evolution of Hong Kong action cinema as well as its emergence as a transnational film genre in the era of globalization. It is the most well-organized, theoretically sophisticated, and critically engaging study of the subject that we have seen. It is a pleasure to read each of the essays, which are both erudite and interesting."--Sheldon Lu, coeditor of "Chinese-language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 168mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781932643190
• ISBN-10: 1932643192
• Artikelnr.: 21017033

Autorenporträt

Meaghan Morris, Siu-Leung Li, and Stephen Chan Ching-kiu, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Contributors xi
Introduction: Hong Kong Connections / Meaghan Morris 1
Part 1: History, Imagination and Hong Kong Popular Culture 19
1. Moving Body: The Interactions Between Chinese Opera and Action Cinema /
Yung Sai-shing 21
2. Interactions Between Japanese and Hong Kong Action Cinemas / Kinnia Yau
Shuk-ting 35
3. The Myth Continues: Cinematic Kung Fu in Modernity / Siu Leung Li 49
4. The Fighting Condition in Hong Kong Cinema: Local Icons and Cultural
Antidotes for the Global Popular / Stephen Chan Ching-kiu 63
5. Order/Anti-Order: Representation of Identity in Hong Kong Action Movies
/ Dai Jinhua 81
Part 2: Action Cinema as Contact Zone 95
6. Genre as Contact Zone: Hong Kong Action and Korean Hwalkuk / Kim Soyoung
97
7. Hong Kong Action Film and the Career of the Telugu Mass Hero / S. V.
Srinivas 111
8. Hong Kong-Hollywood-Bombay: On the Function of "Martial Art" in the
Hindi Action Cinema / Valentina Vitali 125
9. Let's Miscegenate: Jackie Chan and His African-American Connection /
Laleen Jayamanne 151
10. The Secrets of Movement: The Influence of Hong Kong Action Cinema upon
the Contemporary French Avant-garde / Nicole Brenez 163
11. At the Edge of the Cut: An Encounter with the Hong Kong Style in
Contemporary Action Cinema / Adrian Martin 175
Part 3: Translation and Embodiment: Technologies of Globalisation 189
12. Wuxia Redux: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as a Model of Late
Transnational Production / Stephen Teo 191
13. Hong Kong Film and the New Cinephilia / David Desser 205
14. Action Cinema, Labour Power and the Video Market / Paul Willemen 223
15. Spectral Critiques: Tracking "Uncanny" Filmic Paths Towards a
Bio-Poetics of Trans-Pacific Globalization / Rob Wilson 249
16. Technoscience Culture, Embodiment and Wuda pian / Wong Kin-yuen 269
Notes 287
Index 327