Hong Kong cinema since 1997
Subtitle: the post-nostalgic imagination
By: Vivian P. Y. Lee
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780230221437
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-249) and index.

Includes filmography: p. 239-241.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: pt. 1. Time and memory. Post-nostalgia: In the mood for love and 2046; title: Cinematic remembrances: Ordinary heroes and Little Cheung; title: Allegory, kinship, and redemption: Fu Bo and Isabella; title: pt. 2. Schizophrenia, amnesia, and cinephilia; title: Lost in the cosmopolitan crime zone: Johnnie To's urban legends; title: The Kung Fu hero in the digital age: Stephen Chow's 'glocal' strategies; title: Karmic redemption: memory and schizophrenia in Hong Kong action films; title: pt. 3. In and out.; title: Migrants in a strange city: (Dis-)locating the China imaginary; title: Outside the nation: the Pan-Asian trajectory of Applause Pictures; title: The Hong Kong multiplex: an unfolding narrative.