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Title Hong Kong screenscapes : from the new wave to the digital frontier / edited by Esther M.K. Cheung, Gina Marchetti, and Tan See-Kam
Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 296 pages) : illustrations
Series Asian cinema
Asian cinema
Contents Contributors -- Hong Kong Screenscapes: An Introduction -- Part I. : Voices of the Hong Kong New Wave -- 1. Do We Hear the City?: Voices of the Stranger in Hong Kong Cinema -- 2. Surfing with the Surreal in Tsui Hark's Wave: Collage Practice, Diasporic Hybrid Texts, and Flexible Citizenship -- 3. Ann Hui at the Margin of Mainstream Hong Kong Cinema -- 4. Interview with Ann Hui: On the Edge of the Mainstream -- 5. Urban Nomads, Exilic Reflections: The Cine-Modernism of Patrick Tam -- Part II. : Independent Connections -- 6. Performing the Margins: Locating Independent Cinema in Hong Kong -- 7. Re-imagining Hong Kong-China from the Sidelines: Fruit Chan's Little Cheung and Durian Durian -- 8. Alternative Perspectives/Alternative Cinemas: Modern Films and the Hong Kong Experimental Scene -- 9. Specters of Memory: An Artist Statement (Displaced) -- 10. Documenting Hong Kong: Interview with Tammy Cheung -- 11. Between Times and Spaces: Interview with Evans Chan -- 12. Hong Kong Cinema and the Film Essay: A Matter of Perception -- Part III. : Sex in the Asian City -- 13. Between Comrade and Queer: Stanley Kwan's Hold You Tight -- 14. Interview with Yau Ching: Filming Women in Hong Kong's Queerscape -- 15. On Isaac Leung, Cyber Sex as Pseudo-Science: The Artist's Search for Sex Spaces in Hong Kong (and Beyond) -- 16. The Mistress and Female Sexuality -- 17. Reimagining the Femme Fatale: Gender and Nation in Fruit Chan's Hollywood Hong Kong -- Notes
Summary The chapters in this book feature Ann Hui at the margin of mainstream Hong Kong cinema, alternative perspectives/alternative cinemas, Hong Kong cinema and the film essay, an interview with Yau Ching, and much more
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-285) and index
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Subject Motion pictures -- China -- Hong Kong
ART -- Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
Motion pictures
China -- Hong Kong
Form Electronic book
Author Cheung, Esther M. K., editor
Marchetti, Gina, editor
Tan, See Kam, 1958- editor.
ISBN 9789888053544
988805354X
9789888028566
9888028561
9789882206991
9882206999