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9781932643190

Hong Kong Connections

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  • ISBN13:

    9781932643190

  • ISBN10:

    1932643192

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-01-30
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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Summary

Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world's most popular cultural genres: action cinema. Hong Kong action films have proved popular over the decades with audiences worldwide, and they have seized the imaginations of filmmakers working in many different cultural traditions and styles. How do we account for this appeal, which changes as it crosses national borders?Hong Kong Connections brings leading film scholars together to explore the circulation of Hong Kong cinema in Japan, Korea, India, Australia, France, and the United States, as well as its links with Taiwan, Singapore, and the Chinese mainland. In the process, this collection examines diverse cultural contexts for action cinema's popularity and the problems involved in the trans-national study of globally popular forms, suggesting that in order to grasp the history of Hong Kong action cinema's influence we need to bring out the differences as well as the links that constitute popularity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Contributors xi
Introduction: Hong Kong Connections 1(18)
Meaghan Morris
Part 1: History, Imagination and Hong Kong Popular Culture
19(76)
Moving Body: The Interactions Between Chinese Opera and Action Cinema
21(14)
Yung Sai-shing
Interactions Between Japanese and Hong Kong Action Cinemas
35(14)
Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting
The Myth Continues: Cinematic Kung Fu in Modernity
49(14)
Siu Leung LI
The Fighting Condition in Hong Kong Cinema: Local Icons and Cultural Antidotes for the Global Popular
63(18)
Stephen Chan Ching-kiu
Order/Anti-Order: Representation of Identity in Hong Kong Action Movies
81(14)
Dai Jinhua
Part 2: Action Cinema as Contact Zone
95(94)
Genre as Contact Zone: Hong Kong Action and Korean Hwalkuk
97(14)
Kim Soyoung
Hong Kong Action Film and the Career of the Telugu Mass Hero
111(14)
S. V. Srinivas
Hong Kong--Hollywood--Bombay: On the Function of ``Martial Art'' in the Hindi Action Cinema
125(26)
Valentina Vitali
Let's Miscegenate: Jackie Chan and His African-American Connection
151(12)
Laleen Jayamanne
The Secrets of Movement: The Influence of Hong Kong Action Cinema upon the Contemporary French Avant-garde
163(12)
Nicole Brenez
At the Edge of the Cut: An Encounter with the Hong Kong Style in Contemporary Action Cinema
175(14)
Adrian Martin
Part 3: Translation and Embodiment: Technologies of Globalisation
189(98)
Wuxia Redux: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as a Model of Late Transnational Production
191(14)
Stephen Teo
Hong Kong Film and the New Cinephilia
205(18)
David Desser
Action Cinema, Labour Power and the Video Market
223(26)
Paul Willemen
Spectral Critiques: Tracking ``Uncanny'' Filmic Paths Towards a Bio-Poetics of Trans-Pacific Globalization
249(20)
Rob Wilson
Technoscience Culture, Embodiment and Wuda pian
269(18)
Wong Kin-yuen
Notes 287(40)
Index 327

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