| Description |
viii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
False consciousness and double consciousness: race, virtual reality, and the assimilation of Hong Kong action cinema in The matrix / Peter X. Feng -- The par-Asian cinematic imaginary in Olivier Assayas's Irma Vep / Grace An -- The HK venture: the Francophone cine-logocentric nexus / Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park -- Wong Fei-Hung in da house: Hong Kong martial-arts films and hip-hop culture / Frances Gateward -- Same difference: racial masculinity in Hong Kong and cop-buddy "hybrids" / Gayle Wald -- American popular music and neocolonialism in the films of Edward Yang / Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh -- Hollywood and Taiwan: connections, countercurrents, and Ang Lee's Hulk / Gina Marchetti -- Becoming Hollywood? Hong Kong cinema in the new century / Chuck Kleinhans -- "From behind the wall": the representation of gender and sexuality in modern Chinese film / Zhou Xuelin -- Beyond the western gaze: Orientalism, feminism, and the suffering woman in nontransnational Chinese cinema / Andrew Grossman -- Disappearing faces: bisexuality and transvestism in two Hong Kong comedies / Helen Hok-Sze Leung -- Staging gay life in China: Zhang Yuan and East palace, west palace / Chris Berry -- Whose fatal ways: mapping the boundary and consuming the other in border crossing films / Li-Mei Chang -- Asian martial-arts cinema, dance, and the cultural languages of gender / Aaron D. Anderson -- Singapore as a society of strangers: Eric Khoo's Mee pok man, 12 storeys, and Be with me / Tan See-Kam -- Chinese cinema revisits the city: Beijing trilogy and global urbanism of the 1990s / Jenny Kwok-Wah Lau -- Taiwan fever? Tsai Ming-Liang and the everyday postnation / Peter Hitchcock -- The spirits of capital and haunting sounds: translocal historicism in victim (1999) / Esther C.M. Yau -- Zhang Yimou's hero: the temptations of fascism / Evans Chan |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- China.
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Motion pictures, Chinese -- United States.
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Motion pictures, Chinese.
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| Author |
Feng, Peter X., 1966-
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Marchetti, Gina.
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See Kam, Tan, 1958-
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| LC no. |
2008012714 |
| ISBN |
1592132677 (hbk.) |
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1592132685 (paperback) |
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9781592132676 (hbk.) |
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9781592132683 (paperback) |
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