Hong Kong University Press 2009, P 151 This tragic coming-of-age story follows three disillusioned local youths struggling to navigate Hong Kong public housing projects and late adolescence amid violent crime, gang pressure, and broken homes. Their personal friendships and family lives intersect with a mysterious fourth protagonist, a girl whose suicide haunts the other three...
Hong Kong University Press,2009- p. 219 This book compares production and consumption of Asian horror cinemas in different national contexts and their multidirectional dialogues with Hollywood and neighboring Asian cultures. Individual essays highlight common themes including technology, digital media, adolescent audience sensibilities, transnational productions, pan-Asian...
Scarecrow Press, 2007. — 631 p. Despite the industry being shutdown by two world wars, having its martial arts films dismissively labeled as "chopsocky," and operating on shoestring budgets, the films of Hong Kong have been praised and imitated all over the world. From its beginning in 1909 with the silent short Stealing the Roast Duck to the martial arts classic Enter the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 368 p. This innovative collection of essays on twenty-first century Chinese cinema and moving image culture features contributions from an international community of scholars, critics, and practitioners. Taken together, their perspectives make a compelling case that the past decade has witnessed a radical transformation of conventional notions of...
Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 2007. — xiv, 243 p. — ISBN: 9780520249448. Shu-mei Shih inaugurates the field of Sinophone studies in this vanguard excursion into sophisticated cultural criticism situated at the intersections of Chinese studies, Asian American studies, diaspora studies, and transnational studies. Arguing that the visual has become...
Routledge, 2007. — 225 p. — ISBN: 978-0-203-96439-2. Following the recent success of Taiwanese film directors, such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Ang Lee and Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwanese film is raising its profile in contemporary cinema. This collection presents an exciting and ambitious foray into the cultural politics of contemporary Taiwan film that goes beyond the...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 257 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-80677-1. Despite differences in the political, social, and economic systems of Taiwan and mainland China, the process of modernization in both have challenged traditional cultural norms. Tonglin Lu examines how differences in cultural formation between Taiwan and China have influenced reactions to modernity and how...
Irvington Way Institute Press, 2011. — 300 p. First published in 2000, Planet Hong Kong is acclaimed as the best book on this vibrant, unpredictable cinema. It surveys the history, its rise to international renown, the dominant genres and stars, and its unique contributions to world cinema. Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, John Woo, Tsui Hark, Chang Cheh, Lau Kar-leung, and Wong Kar-wai...
London & New York: Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group, 2004. — xiii; 328 p. ISBN: 0203645839 Master e-book What does it mean to be ‘Chinese’? This controversial question has sparked off a never-ending process of image-making in Chinese and Chinese-speaking communities throughout the twentieth century. This introduction to Chinese national cinema, written for scholars and...
London & New York: Routledge - Taylor & Francis, 1998 (2002 e-Library). — xxiv; 475 p., index. ISBN: 0203195558 This reference work is designed to provide, first of all, a comprehensive coverage of Chinese film in its historical, cultural, geopolitical, generic, thematic and textual aspects; and, secondly, a critical guide to assist the reader to navigate through these multiple...
London & New York: Routledge - Taylor & Francis, 1998 (2002 e-Library). — xxiv; 475 p., index. ISBN: 0203195558 This reference work is designed to provide, first of all, a comprehensive coverage of Chinese film in its historical, cultural, geopolitical, generic, thematic and textual aspects; and, secondly, a critical guide to assist the reader to navigate through these multiple...
Intellect Ltd., UK & USA, 2008. — 192 p. The increasingly popular films of the Hong Kong New Wave grapple with such issues as East-West cultural conflicts, colonial politics, the divide between rich and poor, the plight of women in a modernizing Asian city, and the identity crises provoked by Hong Kong’s estranged motherland. Comprehensive and penetrating, Hong Kong New Wave...