At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless WorldChing-Mei Esther Yau U of Minnesota Press, 2001 - 342 من الصفحات 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. |
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CHAPTER TWO | 53 |
CHAPTER THREE | 73 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 95 |
THE KILLER | 97 |
THE KILLER | 101 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 115 |
Way of the Dragon | 121 |
Hong Kongs colonial | 129 |
The brothel becomes | 219 |
CHAPTER TEN | 231 |
Cest la vie mon cheri | 237 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN | 251 |
Edgy Hong Kong | 256 |
CHAPTER TWELVE | 261 |
Michael Wong suggests | 269 |
可 | 271 |
成龍洪金寶 | 135 |
CHAPTER SIX | 143 |
Speed and nationalism | 149 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 159 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 177 |
CHAPTER NINE | 209 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN | 277 |
Filming homosexuality | 278 |
Glossary | 295 |
Selected Bibliography | 311 |
Contributors | 323 |