A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema

résumé

contents

Foreword xviii
Ackbar Abbas
Introduction 1
Esther M.K. Cheung, Gina Marchetti, and Esther C.M. Yau
Part I Critical Paradigms: Defining Hong Kong Cinema Studies 15
1 Watchful Partners, Hidden Currents: Hong Kong Cinema Moving into the Mainland of China 17
Esther C.M. Yau
2 The Urban Maze: Crisis and Topography in Hong Kong Cinema 51
Esther M.K. Cheung
3 Hong Kong Cinema as Ethnic Borderland 71
Kwai ]cheung Lo
4 Hong Kong Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalization and Mainlandization: Hong Kong SAR New Wave as a Cinema of Anxiety 89
Mirana May Szeto and Yun ]chung Chen
Commentary: Dimensions of Hong Kong Cinema 116
Sheldon Lu
Part II Critical Geographies 121
5 Hong Kong Cinema’s Exotic Others: Re ]examining the Hong Kong Body in the Context of Asian Regionalism 123
Olivia Khoo
6 Animating the Translocal: The McDull Films as a Cultural and Visual Expression of Hong Kong 140
Kimburley Wing-yee Choi and Steve Fore
7 Globalizing Hong Kong Cinema Through Japan 168
David Desser
8 Creative Cinematic Geographies Through the Hong Kong International Film Festival 185
Cindy Hing ]yuk Wong
9 Postmodernity, Han Normativity, and Hong Kong Cinema 207
Evans Chan
Commentary: Critical Geographies 225
Stephen Yiu ]wai Chu
Part III The Gendered Body and Queer Configurations 235
10 Feminism, Postfeminism, and Hong Kong Women Filmmakers 237
Gina Marchetti
11 Love In The City: The Placing of Intimacy in Urban Romance Films 265
Helen Hok ]sze Leung
12 Regulating Queer Domesticity in the Neoliberal Diaspora 284
Audrey Yue
Commentary: To Love is to Demand: A Very Short Commentary 303
Shu ]mei Shih
Part IV Hong Kong Stars 305
13 Return of the Dragon: Handover, Hong Kong Cinema, and Chinese Ethno ]nationalism 307
Paul Bowman
14 Transitional Stardom: The Case of Jimmy Wang Yu 322
Tony Williams
15 Camp Stars of Androgyny: A Study of Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui’s Body Images of Desire 341
Natalia Siu ]hung Chan
16 Cooling Faye Wong: A Cosmopolitical Intervention 359
Kin ]Yan Szeto
Commentary: Hong Kong Stars and Stardom 379
Gary Bettinson
Part V Narratives and Aesthetics 389
17 Making Merry on Time: A Feast of Nostalgia in Watching Chinese New Year Films 391
Fiona Yuk ]wa Law
18 A Pan ]Asian Cinema of Allusion: Going Home and Dumplings 410
Bliss Cua Lim
19 Double Agents, Cameos, and the Poor Man’s Orchestra: Music and Place in Chungking Express 440
Giorgio Biancorosso
20 Documenting Sentiments in Video Diaries around 1997: Archeology of Forgotten Screen Practices 462
Linda Chiu ]han Lai
Commentary: The Dynamics of Off ]Centeredness in Hong Kong Cinema 489
Yingjin Zhang
Part VI Screen Histories and Documentary Practices 499
21 The Lightness of History: Screening the Past in Hong Kong Cinema 501
Vivian P.Y. Lee
22 The Tales of Fang Peilin and Zhu Shilin: From Rethinking Hong Kong Cinema to Rewriting Chinese Film History 523
Ain ]ling Wong
23 The Documentary Film in Hong Kong 539
Ian Aitken and Mike Ingham
24 Representations of Law in Hong Kong Cinema 560
Marco Wan
Commentary: Cinema and the Cultural Politics of Identity: Hong Kong No More? A Commentary on the Verge of Postcolonial Locality 577
Stephen Ching ]kiu Chan
Filmography 585
Index 602