Hong Kong connections
Subtitle: transnational imagination in action cinema
By: edited by Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung Li, and Stephen Chan Ching-kiu.
Contributors: Morris, Meaghan.; Li, Siu Leung, 1958-; Chan, Stephen Ching-kiu.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Adventure films -- History and criticism; Adventure films -- China -- Hong Kong -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Moving body : the interactions between Chinese Opera and action cinema / Yung Sai-shing; title: Interactions between Japanese and Hong Kong action cinemas / Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting; title: The myth continues : cinematic Kung Fu in modernity / Siu Leung Li; title: The fighting condition in Hong Kong cinema : local icons and cultural antidotes for the global popular / Stephen Chan Ching-kiu; title: Order/anti-order : representation of identity in Hong Kong action movies / Dai Jinhua; title: Genre as contact Zone: Hong Kong action and Korean hwalkuk / Kim Soyoung; title: Hong Kong action film and the career of the Telugu Mass hero / S.V. Srinivas; title: Hong Kong, Hollywood, Bombay : on the function of 'martial art' in the Hindi action cinema / Valentina Vitali; title: Let's miscegenate : Jackie Chan and his African-American connection / Laleen Jayamanne; title: The secrets of movement : the influence of Hong Kong action cinema upon the contemporary French avant-garde / Nicole Brenez; title: At the edge of the cut : an encounter with the Hong Kong style in contemporary action cinema / Adrian Martin; title: Wuxia redux : Crouching tiger, hidden dragon as a model of late transnational production / Stephen Teo; title: Hong Kong film and the new cinephilia / David Desser; title: Action cinema, labour power, and the video market / Paul Willemen; title: Spectral critiques: tracking "uncanny" filmic paths towards a bio-poetics of trans-Pacific globalization / Rob Wilson; title: Technoscience culture, embodiment, and wuda pian / Wong Kin-yuen.