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Informationen zum Autor Meaghan Morris, Siu-Leung Li, and Stephen Chan Ching-kiu, eds. Klappentext "This book examines the historical evolution of Hong Kong action cinema as well as its emergence as a transnational film genre in the era of globalization. It is the most well-organized, theoretically sophisticated, and critically engaging study of the subject that we have seen. It is a pleasure to read each of the essays, which are both erudite and interesting."--Sheldon Lu, coeditor of "Chinese-language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics" Zusammenfassung Explores the circulation of Hong Kong action cinema in Japan! Korea! India! Australia! France! and the United States! and its links with Taiwan! Singapore! and the Chinese mainland. This collection examines diverse cultural contexts for action cinema's popularity and the problems involved in the trans-national study of globally popular forms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Contributors xi Introduction: Hong Kong Connections / Meaghan Morris 1 Part 1: History, Imagination and Hong Kong Popular Culture 19 1. Moving Body: The Interactions Between Chinese Opera and Action Cinema / Yung Sai-shing 21 2. Interactions Between Japanese and Hong Kong Action Cinemas / Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting 35 3. The Myth Continues: Cinematic Kung Fu in Modernity / Siu Leung Li 49 4. The Fighting Condition in Hong Kong Cinema: Local Icons and Cultural Antidotes for the Global Popular / Stephen Chan Ching-kiu 63 5. Order/Anti-Order: Representation of Identity in Hong Kong Action Movies / Dai Jinhua 81 Part 2: Action Cinema as Contact Zone 95 6. Genre as Contact Zone: Hong Kong Action and Korean Hwalkuk / Kim Soyoung 97 7. Hong Kong Action Film and the Career of the Telugu Mass Hero / S. V. Srinivas 111 8. Hong Kong-Hollywood-Bombay: On the Function of "Martial Art" in the Hindi Action Cinema / Valentina Vitali 125 9. Let's Miscegenate: Jackie Chan and His African-American Connection / Laleen Jayamanne 151 10. The Secrets of Movement: The Influence of Hong Kong Action Cinema upon the Contemporary French Avant-garde / Nicole Brenez 163 11. At the Edge of the Cut: An Encounter with the Hong Kong Style in Contemporary Action Cinema / Adrian Martin 175 Part 3: Translation and Embodiment: Technologies of Globalisation 189 12. Wuxia Redux: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as a Model of Late Transnational Production / Stephen Teo 191 13. Hong Kong Film and the New Cinephilia / David Desser 205 14. Action Cinema, Labour Power and the Video Market / Paul Willemen 223 15. Spectral Critiques: Tracking "Uncanny" Filmic Paths Towards a Bio-Poetics of Trans-Pacific Globalization / Rob Wilson 249 16. Technoscience Culture, Embodiment and Wuda pian / Wong Kin-yuen 269 Notes 287 Index 327 ...
