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A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema represents the first comprehensive exploration of this unique global cinema. By embracing the interdisciplinary approach of contemporary film and cultural studies, this collection navigates theoretical debates while charting a new course for future research in Hong Kong film.
Featuring original contributions from both established and emerging film scholars, these essays offer cutting-edge theoretical perspectives on a broad range of established and emerging topics in the field and reveal how evolving approaches to historiography, sexuality, and colonialism have shaped our understanding of Hong Kong film history. The book also poses philosophical questions concerning how we understand what we see on screen in Hong Kong cinema and how we make sense of this knowledge. Building on this theoretical framework, the volume explores various aspects of Hong Kong film culture within geographic, aesthetic, institutional, cultural, and scholarly contexts. Innovative and thought-provoking, A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema is an essential resource on the state of contemporary scholarship relating to one of the most dynamic cinematic traditions in the history of international film.
List of contents
Acknowledgments x
Notes on Contributors xi
Foreword xviii
Ackbar Abbas Introduction 1
Esther M.K. Cheung, Gina Marchetti, and Esther C.M. Yau Part I Critical Paradigms: Defining Hong Kong Cinema Studies 15 1 Watchful Partners, Hidden Currents: Hong Kong Cinema Moving into the Mainland of China 17
Esther C.M. Yau 2 The Urban Maze: Crisis and Topography in Hong Kong Cinema 51
Esther M.K. Cheung 3 Hong Kong Cinema as Ethnic Borderland 71
Kwai?]cheung Lo 4 Hong Kong Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalization and Mainlandization: Hong Kong SAR New Wave as a Cinema of Anxiety 89
Mirana May Szeto and Yun?]chung Chen Commentary: Dimensions of Hong Kong Cinema 116
Sheldon Lu Part II Critical Geographies 121 5 Hong Kong Cinema's Exotic Others: Re?]examining the Hong Kong Body in the Context of Asian Regionalism 123
Olivia Khoo 6 Animating the Translocal: The McDull Films as a Cultural and Visual Expression of Hong Kong 140
Kimburley Wing-yee Choi and Steve Fore 7 Globalizing Hong Kong Cinema Through Japan 168
David Desser 8 Creative Cinematic Geographies Through the Hong Kong International Film Festival 185
Cindy Hing?]yuk Wong 9 Postmodernity, Han Normativity, and Hong Kong Cinema 207
Evans Chan Commentary: Critical Geographies 225
Stephen Yiu?]wai Chu Part III The Gendered Body and Queer Configurations 235 10 Feminism, Postfeminism, and Hong Kong Women Filmmakers 237
Gina Marchetti 11 Love In The City: The Placing of Intimacy in Urban Romance Films 265
Helen Hok?]sze Leung 12 Regulating Queer Domesticity in the Neoliberal Diaspora 284
Audrey Yue Commentary: To Love is to Demand: A Very Short Commentary 303
Shu?]mei Shih Part IV Hong Kong Stars 305 13 Return of the Dragon: Handover, Hong Kong Cinema, and Chinese Ethno?]nationalism 307
Paul Bowman 14 Transitional Stardom: The Case of Jimmy Wang Yu 322
Tony Williams 15 Camp Stars of Androgyny: A Study of Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui's Body Images of Desire 341
Natalia Siu?]hung Chan 16 Cooling Faye Wong: A Cosmopolitical Intervention 359
Kin?]Yan Szeto Commentary: Hong Kong Stars and Stardom 379
Gary Bettinson Part V Narratives and Aesthetics 389 17 Making Merry on Time: A Feast of Nostalgia in Watching Chinese New Year Films 391
Fiona Yuk?]wa Law 18 A Pan?]Asian Cinema of Allusion: Going Home and Dumplings 410
Bliss Cua Lim 19 Double Agents, Cameos, and the Poor Man's Orchestra: Music and Place in Chungking Express 440
Giorgio Biancorosso 20 Documenting Sentiments in Video Diaries around 1997: Archeology of Forgotten Screen Practices 462
Linda Chiu?]han Lai Commentary: The Dynamics of Off?]Centeredness in Hong Kong Cinema 489
Yingjin Zhang Part VI Screen Histories and Documentary Practices 499 21 The Lightness of History: Screening the Past in Hong Kong Cinema 501
Vivian P.Y. Lee 22 The Tales of Fang Peilin and Zhu Shilin: From Rethinking Hong Kong Cinema to Rewriting Chinese Film History 523
Ain?]ling Wong 23 The Documentary Film in Hong Kong 539
Ian Aitken and Mike Ingham 24 Representations of Law in Hong Kong Cinema 560
Marco Wan Commentary: Cinema and the Cultural Politics of Identity: Hong Kong No More? A Commentary on the Verge of Postcolonial Locality 577
Stephen Ching?]kiu Chan Filmography 585
Index 602
About the author
Esther M.K. Cheung is Department Chairperson, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, at the University of Hong Kong. She is the author of
Fruit Chan's Made in Hong Kong (2009) and
In Pursuit of Independent Visions in Hong Kong Cinema (2010).
Gina Marchetti is Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, at the University of Hong Kong. Her books include
Romance and the "Yellow Peril": Race
, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction (1993) and
Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's INFERNAL AFFAIRS-The Trilogy (2007).
Esther C.M. Yau is Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, at the University of Hong Kong. Her books include
At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World (editor, 2001) and
New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics (co-editor, 1996).
Summary
A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema provides the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of this unique global cinema. By embracing the interdisciplinary approach of contemporary film and cultural studies, this collection navigates theoretical debates while charting a new course for future research in Hong Kong film.
