Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema - Edited by Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung Li, and Stephen Ching-kiu Chan - 文宇宙｜Bookniverse

Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema

Edited by Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung Li, and Stephen Ching-kiu Chan

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書籍簡介

Art > Film > Film History & Theory

Humanities & Social Science > Conmultilingual_settingsorary Ideology > Cultural Research & Critics

Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world’s most popular cultural genres: action cinema. Hong Kong action films have proved popular over the decades with audiences worldwide, and they have seized the imaginations of filmmakers working in many different cultural traditions and styles. How do we account for this appeal, which changes as it crosses national borders? Hong Kong Connections brings leading film scholars together to explore the uptake of Hong Kong cinema in Japan, Korea, India, Australia, France and the US as well as its links with Taiwan, Singapore and the Chinese mainland. In the process, this collective study examines diverse cultural contexts for action cinema’s popularity, and the problems involved in the transnational study of globally popular forms suggesting that in order to grasp the history of Hong Kong action cinema’s influence we need to bring out the differences as well as the links that constitute popularity. Contributors: Nicole Brenez; Dai Jinhua; Stephen Chan Ching-kiu; David Desser; Laleen Jayamanne; Kim Soyoung; Siu Leung Li; Adrian Martin; S. V. Srinivas; Stephen Teo; Valentina Vitali; Paul Willemen; Rob Wilson; Wong Kin-yuen; Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting; and Yung Sai-shing.

作者簡介

Edited by Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung Li, and Stephen Ching-kiu Chan

The editors are all working at the Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Meaghan Morris is Chair Professor of Cultural Studies, and Co-ordinator of the Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Programme. Siu Leung Li is Associate Professor, and Stephen Chan Ching-kiu is Professor and Director of the Master of Cultural Studies Programme.

出版社簡介

Established in 1956, and part of the University of Hong Kong, Asia’s most prominent English-speaking university, HKU Press publishes more than 30 new titles annually, with a growing proportion (more than 25%) in Chinese. Building on Hong Kong's unique global position, HKU Press books examine, critique, and celebrate Asia’s place in the world. We have gained particular renown for publications in Chinese history and culture, law, public health, social work, film/media studies, art and architecture/urban planning.