Hong Kong connections : transnational imagination in action cinema / edited by Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung Li, and Stephen Chan Ching-kiu
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- 3427322
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- Durham : Duke University Press ; Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2005
- xvi, 343 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 1932643192
- 193264301X
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- 1. Moving body: the interactions between Chinese Opera and action cinema / Yung Sai-shing
- 2. Interactions between Japanese and Hong Kong action cinemas / Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting
- 3. The myth continues: cinematic Kung Fu in modernity / Siu Leung Li
- 4. The fighting condition in Hong Kong cinema: local icons and cultural antidotes for the global popular / Stephen Chan Ching-kiu
- 5. Order/anti-order: representation of identity in Hong Kong action movies / Dai Jinhua
- 6. Genre as contact Zone: Hong Kong action and Korean hwalkuk / Kim Soyoung
- 7. Hong Kong action film and the career of the Telugu Mass hero / S.V. Srinivas
- 8. Hong Kong, Hollywood, Bombay: on the function of 'martial art' in the Hindi action cinema / Valentina Vitali
- 9. Let's miscegenate: Jackie Chan and his African-American connection / Laleen Jayamanne
- 10. The secrets of movement: the influence of Hong Kong action cinema upon the contemporary French avant-garde / Nicole Brenez
- 11. At the edge of the cut: an encounter with the Hong Kong style in contemporary action cinema / Adrian Martin
- 12. Wuxia redux: Crouching tiger, hidden dragon as a model of late transnational production / Stephen Teo
- 13. Hong Kong film and the new cinephilia / David Desser
- 14. Action cinema, labour power, and the video market / Paul Willemen
- 15. Spectral critiques: tracking "uncanny" filmic paths towards a bio-poetics of trans-Pacific globalization / Rob Wilson
- 16. Technoscience culture, embodiment, and wuda pian / Wong Kin-yuen.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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