Title: Hong Kong connections : transnational imagination in action cinema /
Authors: Morris, Meaghan.; Li, Siu Leung, 1958-; Chan, Stephen Ching-kiu.
Publisher: Duke University Press ; Hong Kong University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Action and adventure films China Hong Kong History and criticism.; Action and adventure films History and criticism
Contents: Moving body : the interactions between Chinese Opera and action cinema / Yung Sai-shing -- Interactions between Japanese and Hong Kong action cinemas / Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting -- The myth continues : cinematic Kung Fu in modernity / Siu Leung Li -- The fighting condition in Hong Kong cinema : local icons and cultural antidotes for the global popular / Stephen Chan Ching-kiu -- Order/anti-order : representation of identity in Hong Kong action movies / Dai Jinhua -- Genre as contact Zone: Hong Kong action and Korean hwalkuk / Kim Soyoung -- Hong Kong action film and the career of the Telugu Mass hero / S.V. Srinivas -- Hong Kong, Hollywood, Bombay : on the function of 'martial art' in the Hindi action cinema / Valentina Vitali -- Let's miscegenate : Jackie Chan and his African-American connection / Laleen Jayamanne -- The secrets of movement : the influence of Hong Kong action cinema upon the contemporary French avant-garde / Nicole Brenez -- At the edge of the cut : an encounter with the Hong Kong style in contemporary action cinema / Adrian Martin -- Wuxia redux : Crouching tiger, hidden dragon as a model of late transnational production / Stephen Teo -- Hong Kong film and the new cinephilia / David Desser -- Action cinema, labour power, and the video market / Paul Willemen -- Spectral critiques: tracking "uncanny" filmic paths towards a bio-poetics of trans-Pacific globalization / Rob Wilson -- Technoscience culture, embodiment, and wuda pian / Wong Kin-yuen.