Hong Kong cinema since 1997
Subtitle: the post-nostalgic imagination
By: Vivian P.Y. Lee.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230221437
Subjects: Motion pictures -- China -- Hong Kong
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 and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Nostalgia, Memory and Local Histories in Hong Kongs Post-1997 Cinescape * PART I: 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 * PART II: SCHIZOPHRENIA, AMNESIA AND CINEPHILIA * Lost in the Cosmopolitan Crime Zone: Johnnie Tos Urban Legends * The Kung Fu Hero in the Digital Age: Stephen Chows Glocal Strategies * Karmic Redemption: Memory and Schizophrenia in Hong Kong Action Films * PART III: 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.