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1 online resource (xi, 342 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-331) and index. |
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Introduction, Diversity of masculinities in Hong Kong cinema / Laikwan Pang -- Making movies male : Zhang Che and the Shaw brothers martial arts movies, 1965-1975 / David Desser -- Post-1977 Hong Kong masculinity / Laikwan Pang -- Queering masculinity in Hong Kong movies / Travis S.K. Kong -- Unsung heroes : reading transgender subjectivities in Hong Kong action cinema / Helen Hok-sze Leung -- Kung Fu films in diaspora : death of the bamboo hero / Sheng-mei Ma -- Obtuse music and the nebulous male : the haunting presence of Taiwan in Hong Kong films of the 1990s / Shen Shiao-Ying -- Fighting female masculinity : women warriors and their foreignness in Hong Kong action cinema of the 1980s / Kwai-cheung Lo -- Unworthy subject : slaughter, cannibalism and postcoloniality / James A. Steintrager -- Bringing breasts into the mainstream / Yeeshan Chan -- Post-Fordist production and the re-appropriation of Hong Kong masculinity in Hollywood / Wai Kit Choi -- Masculinities in self-invention : critics' discourses on Kung Fu-action movies and comedies / Agnes S. Ku -- Women's reception of mainstream Hong Kong cinema / Day Wong. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
This collection of exciting essays explores how the representations and the ideologies of masculinities can be productively studied in the context of Hong Kong cinema. It has two objectives: first, to investigate the multiple meanings and manifestations o. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- China -- Hong Kong -- History.
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Motion pictures. |
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China -- Hong Kong. |
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History. |
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Masculinity in motion pictures.
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Masculinity in motion pictures. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Pang, Laikwan.
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Wong, Day.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Masculinities and Hong Kong cinema. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], ©2005 9789622097377 (OCoLC)57751323 |
| ISBN |
9789882202221 (electronic book) |
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9882202225 (electronic book) |
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1282704958 |
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9781282704954 |
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9789622097377 (hardback) |
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9622097375 (hardback) |
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9622097383 (paperback) |
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9789622097384 (paperback) |
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