Companion to Hong Kong Cinema

By (author) Cheung

ISBN13: 9781119066033

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

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Published: 07/05/2024

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A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema provides the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of this unique global cinema. By embracing the interdisciplinary approach of contemporary film and cultural studies, this collection navigates theoretical debates while charting a new course for future research in Hong Kong film. Examines Hong Kong cinema within an interdisciplinary context, drawing connections between media, gender, and Asian studies, Asian regional studies, Chinese language and cultural studies, global studies, and critical theory Highlights the often contentious debates that shape current thinking about film as a medium and its possible future Investigates how changing research on gender, the body, and sexual orientation alter the ways in which we analyze sexual difference in Hong Kong cinema Charts how developments in theories of colonialism, postcolonialism, globalization, neoliberalism,  Orientalism, and nationalism transform our understanding of the economics and politics of the Hong Kong film industry Explores how the concepts of diaspora, nostalgia, exile, and trauma offer opportunities to rethink accepted ways of understanding Hong Kong’s popular cinematic genres and stars
Acknowledgments x Notes on Contributors xi Foreword xviii Ackbar Abbas Introduction 1 Esther M.K. Cheung, Gina Marchetti, and Esther C.M. Yau Part I Critical Paradigms: Defining Hong Kong Cinema Studies 15 1 Watchful Partners, Hidden Currents: Hong Kong Cinema Moving into the Mainland of China 17 Esther C.M. Yau 2 The Urban Maze: Crisis and Topography in Hong Kong Cinema 51 Esther M.K. Cheung 3 Hong Kong Cinema as Ethnic Borderland 71 Kwai]cheung Lo 4 Hong Kong Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalization and Mainlandization: Hong Kong SAR New Wave as a Cinema of Anxiety 89 Mirana May Szeto and Yun]chung Chen Commentary: Dimensions of Hong Kong Cinema 116 Sheldon Lu Part II Critical Geographies 121 5 Hong Kong Cinema’s Exotic Others: Re]examining the Hong Kong Body in the Context of Asian Regionalism 123 Olivia Khoo 6 Animating the Translocal: The McDull Films as a Cultural and Visual Expression of Hong Kong 140 Kimburley Wing-yee Choi and Steve Fore 7 Globalizing Hong Kong Cinema Through Japan 168 David Desser 8 Creative Cinematic Geographies Through the Hong Kong International Film Festival 185 Cindy Hing]yuk Wong 9 Postmodernity, Han Normativity, and Hong Kong Cinema 207 Evans Chan Commentary: Critical Geographies 225 Stephen Yiu]wai Chu Part III The Gendered Body and Queer Configurations 235 10 Feminism, Postfeminism, and Hong Kong Women Filmmakers 237 Gina Marchetti 11 Love In The City: The Placing of Intimacy in Urban Romance Films 265 Helen Hok]sze Leung 12 Regulating Queer Domesticity in the Neoliberal Diaspora 284 Audrey Yue Commentary: To Love is to Demand: A Very Short Commentary 303 Shu]mei Shih Part IV Hong Kong Stars 305 13 Return of the Dragon: Handover, Hong Kong Cinema, and Chinese Ethno]nationalism 307 Paul Bowman 14 Transitional Stardom: The Case of Jimmy Wang Yu 322 Tony Williams 15 Camp Stars of Androgyny: A Study of Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui’s Body Images of Desire 341 Natalia Siu]hung Chan 16 Cooling Faye Wong: A Cosmopolitical Intervention 359 Kin]Yan Szeto Commentary: Hong Kong Stars and Stardom 379 Gary Bettinson Part V Narratives and Aesthetics 389 17 Making Merry on Time: A Feast of Nostalgia in Watching Chinese New Year Films 391 Fiona Yuk]wa Law 18 A Pan]Asian Cinema of Allusion: Going Home and Dumplings 410 Bliss Cua Lim 19 Double Agents, Cameos, and the Poor Man’s Orchestra: Music and Place in Chungking Express 440 Giorgio Biancorosso 20 Documenting Sentiments in Video Diaries around 1997: Archeology of Forgotten Screen Practices 462 Linda Chiu]han Lai Commentary: The Dynamics of Off]Centeredness in Hong Kong Cinema 489 Yingjin Zhang Part VI Screen Histories and Documentary Practices 499 21 The Lightness of History: Screening the Past in Hong Kong Cinema 501 Vivian P.Y. Lee 22 The Tales of Fang Peilin and Zhu Shilin: From Rethinking Hong Kong Cinema to Rewriting Chinese Film History 523 Ain]ling Wong 23 The Documentary Film in Hong Kong 539 Ian Aitken and Mike Ingham 24 Representations of Law in Hong Kong Cinema 560 Marco Wan Commentary: Cinema and the Cultural Politics of Identity: Hong Kong No More? A Commentary on the Verge of Postcolonial Locality 577 Stephen Ching]kiu Chan Filmography 585 Index 602
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