| Edition |
1st pbk. ed. |
| Description |
xi, 333 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: 2000. |
| Contents |
Kung fu craze: Hong Kong Cinema's first American reception / David Desser -- American connection in early Hong Kong cinema / Law Kar -- The 1960s: modernity, youth culture, and Hong Kong Cantonese cinema / Poshek Fu -- The 1970s: movement and transition / Stephen Teo -- Richness through imperfection: King Hu and the glimpse / David Bordwell -- Space, place, and spectacle: the crisis cinema of John Woo / Tony Williams -- Besides fists and blood: Michael Hui and Cantonese comedy / Jenny Kwok Wah Lau -- Film work of Ann Hui / Patricia Brett Erens -- Between nationalism and colonialism: mainland émigrés, marginal culture, and Hong Kong cinema 1937-1941 / Poshek Fu -- Urban cinema and the cultural identity of Hong Kong / Leung Ping-Kwan -- Rewriting history: Hong Kong nostalgia cinema and its social practice / Natalia Chan Sui Hung -- Filming diaspora and identity: Hong Kong and 1997 / Sheldon Lu -- Buying American, consuming Hong Kong: cultural commerce, fantasies of identity, and the cinema / Gina Marchetti -- Hong Kong electric shadows: a selected bibliography of studies in English / H.C. Li. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Added Author |
Fu, Poshek, 1955-
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Desser, David.
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| ISBN |
0521776023 paperback |
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9780521776028 paperback |
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