The Cinema of Hong Kong

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List of contributors;
Acknowledgements Poshek Fu and David Desser;
Introduction Poshek Fu and David Desser;
Chronology of Hong Kong cinema David Desser and Poshek Fu;
Part I. History:
1. The Kung Fu craze: Hong Kong cinema's first American reception David Desser;
2. The American connection in early Hong Kong cinema Law Kar;
3. The 1960s: modernity, youth culture, and Hong Kong Cantonese cinema Poshek Fu;
4. The 1970s: movement and transition Stephen Teo;
Part II. Arts:
5. Richness through imperfection: King Hu and the glimpse David Bordwell;
6. Space, place, and spectacle: the crisis cinema of John Woo Tony Williams;
7. Besides fists and blood: Michael Hui and Cantonese comedy Jenny Lau;
8. The film work of Ann Hui Patricia Erens;
Part III. Identity:
9. Between Nationalism and Colonialism: mainland émigrés, marginal culture, Hong Kong cinema 1937–1941 Poshek Fu;
10. Urban cinema and cultural identity of Hong Kong Leung Ping-Kwan;
11. Rewriting history: Hong Kong nostalgia cinema and its social practice Natalia Chan Sui Hung;
12. Filming diaspora and identity: Hong Kong and 1997 Sheldon Lu;
13. Buying American, consuming Hong Kong: cultural commerce, fantasies of identity, and the cinema Gina Marchetti;
14. Hong Kong electric shadows: a selected bibliography of studies in English H. C. Li;
Index.