Hong Kong connections : transnational imagination in action cinema
Explores the circulation of Hong Kong action cinema in Japan, Korea, India, Australia, France, and the United States, and its links with Taiwan, Singapore, and the Chinese mainland. This collection examines diverse cultural contexts for action cinema's popularity and the problems involved in the trans-national study of globally popular forms.
Print Book, English, 2005
Duke University Press ; Hong Kong University Press, Durham, Hong Kong, 2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xvi, 343 pages ; 24 cm
9781932643190, 9781932643015, 1932643192, 193264301X
61278564
Moving body : the interactions between Chinese Opera and action cinema / Yung Sai-shing
Interactions between Japanese and Hong Kong action cinemas / Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting
The myth continues : cinematic Kung Fu in modernity / Siu Leung Li
The fighting condition in Hong Kong cinema : local icons and cultural antidotes for the global popular / Stephen Chan Ching-kiu
Order/anti-order : representation of identity in Hong Kong action movies / Dai Jinhua
Genre as contact Zone: Hong Kong action and Korean hwalkuk / Kim Soyoung
Hong Kong action film and the career of the Telugu Mass hero / S.V. Srinivas
Hong Kong, Hollywood, Bombay : on the function of 'martial art' in the Hindi action cinema / Valentina Vitali
Let's miscegenate : Jackie Chan and his African-American connection / Laleen Jayamanne
The secrets of movement : the influence of Hong Kong action cinema upon the contemporary French avant-garde / Nicole Brenez
At the edge of the cut : an encounter with the Hong Kong style in contemporary action cinema / Adrian Martin
Wuxia redux : Crouching tiger, hidden dragon as a model of late transnational production / Stephen Teo
Hong Kong film and the new cinephilia / David Desser
Action cinema, labour power, and the video market / Paul Willemen
Spectral critiques: tracking "uncanny" filmic paths towards a bio-poetics of trans-Pacific globalization / Rob Wilson
Technoscience culture, embodiment, and wuda pian / Wong Kin-yuen