Hong Kong film, Hollywood and the new global cinema
Subtitle: no film is an island
By: edited by Gina Marchetti and Tan See Kam
Contributors: Marchetti, Gina; See Kam, Tan, 1958-
Series: Routledge media, culture, and social change in Asia -- 6; Media, culture, and social change in Asia series -- 6
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780415380683; 9780203967362
Subjects: Motion pictures -- China -- Hong Kong -- History; Motion picture industry -- China -- Hong Kong -- History; Motion pictures, Chinese -- United States
Description: "This book examines a wide range of aspects of Hong Kong cinema, and discusses the role of Hong Kong cinema in changing global film markets. It explores Hong Kong cinema's inextricable links with China, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, Australia, the United States, and the Chinese diaspora. It considers Hong Kong's connection with Hollywood, which involves ties that bring together art cinema and popular genres as well as film festivals and the media marketplace with popular transnational genres, and demonstrates how Hong Kong film, throughout its history, has challenged, redefined, expanded, and exceeded its borders. Overall, this book examines Hong Kong film in the contexts of globally interconnected filmmaking practices and film scholarship."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-276) and index
Table of contents: title: From South Pacific to Shanghai blues: no film is an island / Tan See Kam; title: The heroic flux in John Woo's trans-Pacific passage: from Confucian brotherhood to American selfhood / Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park; title: Hong Kong film goes to America / Staci Ford; title: Hong Kong television in Chinatown: translocal context(s) and transnational social formations / Amy Lee; title: Thailand in the Hong Kong cinematic imagination / Adam Knee; title: Hong Kong-Australian imaginaries: three Australian films by Clara Law / Tony Mitchell; title: Generic ghosts: remaking the new 'Asian horror film' / Bliss Cua Lim; title: Copies of copies in Hollywood and Hong Kong cinemas: rethinking the woman-warrior figures / Kwai-Cheung Lo; title: The noir East: Hong Kong's transmutation of a Hollywood Genre? / Joelle Collier; title: Scenes of 'in-action' and noir characteristics in the films of Johnnie To (Kei-Fung) / Peter Rist; title: Hong Kong goes international: the case of Golden Harvest / Michael Walsh; title: Distant screens: film festivals and the global projection of Hong Kong cinema / Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong; title: Competing regions: the chromatics of the urban fix / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and John Gammack; title: Jackie Chan, tourism, and the performing agency / Laikwan Pang; title: Niche cinema, or, Kill Bill with Shaolin soccer / Peter Hitchcock