"The Cinema of Stephen Chow provides an in depth look into Stephen Chow's stardom and authorship 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 Shaolin Soccer (2001), Kung Fu Hustle (2004), From Beijing with Love (1994) and Journey To the West (2013). The detailed case studies of seminal local and global hits 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"--…mehr
"The Cinema of Stephen Chow provides an in depth look into Stephen Chow's stardom and authorship 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 Shaolin Soccer (2001), Kung Fu Hustle (2004), From Beijing with Love (1994) and Journey To the West (2013). The detailed case studies of seminal local and global hits 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"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Gary Bettinson is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Lancaster University, UK. He is author of The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai (2015). He is co-editor (with James Udden) of The Poetics of Chinese Cinema (2016), and (with Daniel Martin) of Hong Kong Horror Cinema (2018). He is chief editor of the journal Asian Cinema. Vivian P.Y. Lee is Associate Professor of Chinese and History at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. She is author of The Other Side of Glamour: The Left-wing Studio Network in Hong Kong Cinema in the Cold War Era and Beyond (2020) and Hong Kong Cinema since 1997: the Post-nostalgic Imagination (2009). She is editor of East Asian Cinemas: Regional Flows and Global Transformations (2011).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction - Gary Bettinson and Vivian P. Y. Lee (Lancaster University, UK) I: Stephen Chow and the Hong Kong Television and Film Industries 1. Stephen Chow and the Hong Kong Film Industry of the 1990s-Early 2000s - Ruby Cheung (University of Southampton, UK) 2. From Sing Kid to Master Sing: Stephen Chow and Labor Management in the Hong Kong and Mainland Film Industry - Lin Feng (University of Leicester, UK) 3. King of Hong Kong Comedy: The Making of the "Stephen Chow Film" - Vivian P. Y. Lee II: Auteurism, Visuality and Genre 4. Stephen Chow, King of Comedy Auteurs - Stephen Teo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) 5. Stephen Chow's Visual Comedy - Gary Bettinson 6. Spy Films with Clumsy Spies: Stephen Chow's Response to the James Bond Craze - Jessica Siu-yin Yeung (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) III: The Bruce Lee Connection: Re-making the Comic Kung Fu Hero 7. Descendant of the Dragon: Stephen Chow, Postmodernism, and the Legacy of Bruce Lee - Kyle Barrowman (DePaul University, USA) 8. Way of the Intercepting Pun: Language and the Body in Stephen Chow's Carnival of Kung Fu - Luke White (Middlesex University, UK) 9. "Bruce Lee is My Idol": Kung Fu Comedy, Nonsense, and Nostalgia - Wayne Wong (University of Sheffield, UK) IV: Performing the Comic in the (Post)colonial, Postsocialist Era 10. Precarious Lives through Stephen Chow's Comic Lens: Speculation, Caricature and Precariat - Enoch Tam (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) 11. Stephen Chow's Trickster: An Elasticity of Mind and Body - Tom Cunliffe (University College London, UK) 12. The Myth of Resilience in Stephen Chow's Post-CEPA Films: Kung Fu Hustle and The New King of Comedy - Jing Yang (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China) Bibliography Index
Introduction - Gary Bettinson and Vivian P. Y. Lee (Lancaster University, UK) I: Stephen Chow and the Hong Kong Television and Film Industries 1. Stephen Chow and the Hong Kong Film Industry of the 1990s-Early 2000s - Ruby Cheung (University of Southampton, UK) 2. From Sing Kid to Master Sing: Stephen Chow and Labor Management in the Hong Kong and Mainland Film Industry - Lin Feng (University of Leicester, UK) 3. King of Hong Kong Comedy: The Making of the "Stephen Chow Film" - Vivian P. Y. Lee II: Auteurism, Visuality and Genre 4. Stephen Chow, King of Comedy Auteurs - Stephen Teo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) 5. Stephen Chow's Visual Comedy - Gary Bettinson 6. Spy Films with Clumsy Spies: Stephen Chow's Response to the James Bond Craze - Jessica Siu-yin Yeung (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) III: The Bruce Lee Connection: Re-making the Comic Kung Fu Hero 7. Descendant of the Dragon: Stephen Chow, Postmodernism, and the Legacy of Bruce Lee - Kyle Barrowman (DePaul University, USA) 8. Way of the Intercepting Pun: Language and the Body in Stephen Chow's Carnival of Kung Fu - Luke White (Middlesex University, UK) 9. "Bruce Lee is My Idol": Kung Fu Comedy, Nonsense, and Nostalgia - Wayne Wong (University of Sheffield, UK) IV: Performing the Comic in the (Post)colonial, Postsocialist Era 10. Precarious Lives through Stephen Chow's Comic Lens: Speculation, Caricature and Precariat - Enoch Tam (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) 11. Stephen Chow's Trickster: An Elasticity of Mind and Body - Tom Cunliffe (University College London, UK) 12. The Myth of Resilience in Stephen Chow's Post-CEPA Films: Kung Fu Hustle and The New King of Comedy - Jing Yang (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China) Bibliography Index
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