Hong Kong Cinema Since 1997 [electronic resource] : The Post-Nostalgic Imagination /
Lee, V.author.
Taking as its point of departure the three recurrent themes of nostalgia, memory and local histories, this book is an attempt to map out a new poetics - the 'post-nostalgic imagination' - in Hong Kong cinema in the first decade of Chinese rule.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-249) and index.
Includes filmography: p. 239-241.
Introduction -- pt. 1. Time and memory. Post-nostalgia: In the mood for love and 2046 -- Cinematic remembrances: Ordinary heroes and Little Cheung -- Allegory, kinship, and redemption: Fu Bo and Isabella -- pt. 2. Schizophrenia, amnesia, and cinephilia -- Lost in the cosmopolitan crime zone: Johnnie To's urban legends -- The Kung Fu hero in the digital age: Stephen Chow's 'glocal' strategies -- Karmic redemption: memory and schizophrenia in Hong Kong action films -- pt. 3. In and out. -- Migrants in a strange city: (Dis-)locating the China imaginary -- Outside the nation: the Pan-Asian trajectory of Applause Pictures -- The Hong Kong multiplex: an unfolding narrative.
Taking as its point of departure the three recurrent themes of nostalgia, memory and local histories, this book is an attempt to map out a new poetics - the 'post-nostalgic imagination' - in Hong Kong cinema in the first decade of Chinese rule.
Motion pictures and television.
Motion pictures-Production and direction.
Cultural studies.
Motion pictures-History.
Communication.
China-History.
Screen Studies.
Directing.
Cultural Studies.
Film History.
Media Studies.
History of China.