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New Hong Kong Cinema

Ruby Cheung
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Author : Ruby Cheung
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781782387046

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The trajectory of Hong Kong films had been drastically affected long before the city’s official sovereignty transfer from the British to the Chinese in 1997. The change in course has become more visible in recent years as China has aggressively developed its national film industry and assumed the role of powerhouse in East Asia’s cinematic landscape. The author introduces the “Cinema of Transitions” to study the New Hong Kong Cinema and on- and off-screen life against this background. Using examples from the 1980s to the present, this book offers a fresh perspective on how Hong Kong-related Chinese-language films, filmmakers, audiences, and the workings of film business in East Asia have become major platforms on which “transitions” are negotiated.

At Full Speed

Ching-Mei Esther Yau
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Author : Ching-Mei Esther Yau
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0816632340

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Breathtaking swordplay and nostalgic love, Peking opera and Chow Yun-fat's cult followers -- these are some of the elements of the vivid and diverse urban imagination that find form and expression in the thriving Hong Kong cinema. All receive their due in At Full Speed, a volume that captures the remarkable range and energy of a cinema that borrows, invents, and reinvents across the boundaries of time, culture, and conventions. At Full Speed gathers film scholars and critics from around the globe to convey the transnational, multilayered character that Hong Kong films acquire and impart as they circulate worldwide. These writers scrutinize the films they find captivating: from the lesser known works of Law Man and Yuen Woo Ping to such film festival notables as Stanley Kwan and Wong Kar-wai, and from the commercial action, romance, and comedy genres of Jackie Chan, Peter Chan, Steven Chiau, Tsui Hark, John Woo, and Derek Yee to the attempted departures of Evans Chan, Ann Hui, and Clara Law. In this cinema the contributors identify an aesthetics of action, gender-flexible melodramatic excesses, objects of nostalgia, and globally projected local history and identities, as well as an active critical film community. Their work, the most incisive account ever given of one of the world's largest film industries, brings the pleasures and idiosyncrasies of Hong Kong cinema into clear close-up focus even as it enlarges on the relationships between art and the market, cultural theory and the movies.

King Hu's A Touch of Zen

Stephen Teo
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Author : Stephen Teo
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9622098150

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King Hu's A Touch of Zen by Stephen Teo Pdf

A Touch of Zen is one of the first Chinese-language films to gain recognition in an international film festival (the Grand Prix at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival), creating the generic mould for the "crossover" success of Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon in 2000. The film has achieved a cult status over the years but little has been written about it. This first book-length study of the classic martial arts film therefore redresses its critical neglect, and explores its multi-leveled dimensions and mysteries. One of the central features of the film is the enigmatic knight-lady (xia nü) whose quest for revenge leads her to cross paths with a poor scholar whose interest in military strategy seals their alliance. Teo discusses the psychological manifestations and implications of this relationship and concludes that the film's continuing relevance lies in its portrait of sexuality and the feminist desires of the heroine. Teo also analyzes the film's form as an action piece and the director's preoccupation with Zen as a creative inspiration and as a subject in its own right. As such, he argues that the film is a highly unconventional and idiosyncratic work which attempts to transcend its own genre and reach the heights of universal transcendence. Teo grounds his study in both Western and Chinese literary sources, providing a broad and comprehensive treatise based on the film's narrative concepts and symbols.

Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time

Wimal Dissanayake
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Author : Wimal Dissanayake
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789622095847

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Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time by Wimal Dissanayake Pdf

Ashes of Time, by the internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar-wai, has been considered to be one of the most complex and self-reflexive of Hong Kong films. Loosely based on the stories by renowned martial arts novelist Jin Yong, Wong Kar-wai has created a very different kind of martial arts film, which invites close and sustained study.This book presents the nature and significance of Ashes of Time, and the reasons for its being regarded as a landmark in Hong Kong cinema. Placing the film in historical and cultural context, Dissanayake discusses its vision, imagery, visual style, and narrative structure. In particular, he focuses on the themes of mourning, confession, fantasy, and kung fu movies, which enable the reader to gain a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of the film.

Stanley Kwan's Center Stage

Mette Hjort
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Author : Mette Hjort
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789622097919

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Stanley Kwan's Center Stage by Mette Hjort Pdf

Hjort argues that Stanley Kwan's contribution in Center Stage is to develop an approach to nonfiction filmmaking that is realist without being naïve. The value of the film's reflexive dimension, Hjort shows, has nothing to do with poststructuralist skepticism but with the compelling manifestation of a communicative model that serves as an alternative to hierarchical and authoritarian modes of social organization.

The Cinema of Hong Kong

Poshek Fu,David Desser
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Author : Poshek Fu,David Desser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521776023

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The Cinema of Hong Kong by Poshek Fu,David Desser Pdf

This volume examines Hong Kong cinema in transnational, historical, and artistic contexts.

John Woo's The Killer

Kenneth E. HALL
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Author : Kenneth E. HALL
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789622099562

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John Woo's The Killer by Kenneth E. HALL Pdf

Has the creative period of the New Hong Kong Cinema now come to an end? However we answer this question, there is a need to evaluate the achievements of Hong Kong cinema. This series distinguishes itself from the other books on the subject by focusing in-depth on individual Hong Kong films, which together make the New Hong Kong cinema.

City on Fire

Lisa Odham Stokes,Michael Hoover
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Author : Lisa Odham Stokes,Michael Hoover
Publisher : Verso
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1859847161

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Hong Kong's film industry gained global attention in the 1980s, at the time of negotiations over Great Britain's return of the colony to China. Uncertainty about the post-handover era accelerated Hong Kong's race for economic growth, and found expression in cinema's depictions of a 'city on fire.' In this accessible introduction to the extraordinary cinematic output of the colony, Michael Hoover and Lisa Stokes review the directors and films that have established Hong Kong cinema internationally: John Woo's martial arts flicks, Tsui Hark's wire-worked fantasies, Ann Hui's exile melodramas, Stanley Kwan's limpid romances, and Wong Kar-wai's stylish art films.

John Woo's A Better Tomorrow

Karen Fang
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Author : Karen Fang
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789622096523

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John Woo's A Better Tomorrow by Karen Fang Pdf

A Better Tomorrow has always been hailed as a milestone in Hong Kong cinema. This book describes the different responses to the movie in Hong Kong and later in its reception worldwide, which paved the way for the promotion of John Woo and Chow Yun-fat to their current prominence in Hollywood. Fang examines the different notions of the genre of action cinema in Asian and Western film industries. She tracks the connections between ying shung pian, or "hero" movie, the term by which Woo's film became famous in Hong Kong, and the spectacle of violence emphasized in the term "heroic bloodshed," the category in which the film was known in the West. Finally, she concludes with a discussion of the status of the film and its huge success in the current globalized industry.

Hong Kong Cinema

Law Kar,Frank Bren
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Author : Law Kar,Frank Bren
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810849860

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Starting with the first "Western shadow plays" shown in the late 1890s, motion pictures have played a significant role in China's cultural existence for more than a century. Initially centered in Shanghai, Chinese cinema boomed in Hong Kong in the 1930s, aided by the advent of talkies and the influx of talent and investment from mainland China, Southeast Asia, and America. From the late 1940s, the territory supplanted Shanghai as the "Hollywood of China." In Hong Kong Cinema: A Cross-Cultural View, authors Law Kar and Frank Bren follow the story from Hong Kong's early silent, Chuang Tsi Tests His Wife, through the martial arts craze of the 1970s, to the medium's continued appeal to contemporary international audiences. Rather than provide a sweeping history, the authors focus on the impact of individual personalities, particularly local filmmakers and movie stars. They also consider Eastern and Western influences and examine major developments, including the changing role of women. By profiling key figures and events of the 20th century, this overview is the perfect introduction for anyone interested in Hong Kong's contribution to world cinema. Illustrated with photos.

John Woo's Bullet in the Head

Tony Williams
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Author : Tony Williams
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789622099685

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John Woo's Bullet in the Head by Tony Williams Pdf

The film Bullet in the Head functions both as an apocalyptic melodrama and as an allegory of fears concerning the implications of the Tiananmen Square incident for Hong Kong residents. This book argues for its central importance as a major work of contemporary Hong Kong cinema.

Remaking Chinese Cinema

Yiman Wang
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Author : Yiman Wang
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Film remakes
ISBN : 9789888139163

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From melodrama to Cantonese opera, from silents to 3D animated film, Remaking Chinese Cinema traces cross-Pacific film remaking over the last eight decades. Through the refractive prism of Hollywood, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, Yiman Wang revolutionizes our understanding of Chinese cinema as national cinema. Against the diffusion model of national cinema spreading from a central point—Shanghai in the Chinese case—she argues for a multilocal process of co-constitution and reconstitution. In this spirit, Wang analyzes how southern Chinese cinema (huanan dianying) morphed into Hong Kong cinema through transregional and trans-national interactions that also produced a vision of Chinese cinema. Among the book’s highlights are a rereading of The Goddess—one of the best-known silent Chinese films in the West—from the perspective of its wartime Mandarin-Cantonese remake; the excavation of a hybrid genre (the Western costume Cantonese opera film) inspired by Hollywood’s fantasy films of the 1930s and produced in Hong Kong well into the mid-twentieth century; and a rumination on Hollywood’s remake of Hong Kong’s Infernal Affairs and the wholesale incorporation of “Chinese elements” in Kung Fu Panda 2. Positing a structural analogy between the utopic vision, the national cinema, and the location-specific collective subject position, the author traces their shared urge to infinitesimally approach, but never fully and finitely reach, a projected goal. This energy precipitates the ongoing processes of cross-Pacific film remaking, which constitute a crucial site for imagining and enacting (without absolving) issues of national and regional border politics. These issues unfold in relation to global formations such as colonialism, Cold War ideology, and postcolonial, postsocialist globalization. As such, Remaking Chinese Cinema contributes to the ongoing debate on (trans-)national cinema from the unique perspective of century-long border-crossing film remaking.

Hong Kong Cinema

Yingchi Chu
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Author : Yingchi Chu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135786267

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Examining Hong Kong cinema from its inception in 1913 to the end of the colonial era, this work explains the key areas of production, market, film products and critical traditions. Hong Kong Cinema considers the different political formations of Hong Kong's culture as seen through the cinema, and deals with the historical, political, economic and cultural relations between Hong Kong cinema and other Chinese film industries on the mainland, as well as in Taiwan and South-East Asia. Discussion covers the concept of 'national cinema' in the context of Hong Kong's status as a quasi-nation with strong links to both the 'motherland' (China) and the 'coloniser' (Britain), and also argues that Hong Kong cinema is a national cinema only in an incomplete and ambiguous sense.

Hong Kong Cinema

Stephen Teo
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Author : Stephen Teo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781838716264

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Hong Kong Cinema by Stephen Teo Pdf

This is the first full-length English-language study of one of the world's most exciting and innovative cinemas. Covering a period from 1909 to 'the end of Hong Kong cinema' in the present day, this book features information about the films, the studios, the personalities and the contexts that have shaped a cinema famous for its energy and style. It includes studies of the films of King Hu, Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, as well as those of John Woo and the directors of the various 'New Waves'. Stephen Teo explores this cinema from both Western and Chinese perspectives and encompasses genres ranging from melodrama to martial arts, 'kung fu', fantasy and horror movies, as well as the international art-house successes.

Hong Kong Screenscapes

Esther M. K. Cheung,Gina Marchetti,See-Kam Tan
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Author : Esther M. K. Cheung,Gina Marchetti,See-Kam Tan
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789888028566

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Hong Kong Screenscapes by Esther M. K. Cheung,Gina Marchetti,See-Kam Tan Pdf

Global connections and screen innovations converge in Hong Kong cinema. Energized by transnational images and human flows from China and Asia, Hong Kong's commercial filmmakers and independent pioneers have actively challenged established genres and narrative conventions to create a cultural space independent of Hollywood. The circulation of Hong Kong films through art house and film festival circuits, as well as independent DVDs and galleries and internet sites, reveals many differences within global cultural distributions, as well as distinctive tensions between experimental media artists and traditional screen architects. Coving the contributions of Hong Kong New Wave directors such as Wong Karwai, Stanley Kwan, Ann Hui, Patrick Tam, and Tsui Hark, the volume links their spirit of innovation to work by independent, experimental, and documentary filmmakers, including Fruit Chan, Tammy Cheung, Evans Chan, Yau Ching and digital artist Isaac Leung. Within an interdisciplinary frame that highlights issues of political marginalization, censorship, sexual orientation, gender hierarchies, "flexible citizenship" and local/global identities, this book speaks to scholars and students within as well as beyond the field of Hong Kong cinema. Esther M.K. Cheung is chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and director of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC) at the University of Hong Kong. Gina Marchetti teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. Tan See-Kam presently works and researches at the University of Macau.