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This book 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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Contents
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. xi-xvi
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  1. Introduction: Hong Kong Connections
  2. pp. 1-18
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  1. Part 1. History, Imagination and Hong Kong Popular Culture
  1. 1. Moving Body: The Interactions Between Chinese Opera and Action Cinema
  2. pp. 21-34
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  1. 2. Interactions Between Japanese and Hong Kong Action Cinemas
  2. pp. 35-48
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  1. 3. The Myth Continues: Cinematic Kung Fu in Modernity
  2. pp. 49-62
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  1. 4. The Fighting Condition in Hong Kong Cinema: Local Icons and Cultural Antidotes for the Global Popular
  2. pp. 63-80
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  1. 5. Order/Anti-Order:Representation of Identity in Hong Kong Action Movies
  2. pp. 81-94
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  1. Part 2. Action Cinema as Contact Zone
  1. 6. Genre as Contact Zone: Hong Kong Action and Korean Hwalkuk
  2. pp. 97-110
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  1. 7. Hong Kong Action Film and the Career of the Telugu Mass Hero
  2. pp. 111-124
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  1. 8. Hong Kong-Hollywood-Bombay: On the Function of "Martial Art" in the Hindi Action Cinema
  2. pp. 125-150
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  1. 9. Let's Miscegenate:1 Jackie Chan and His African-American Connection
  2. pp. 151-162
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  1. 10. The Secrets of Movement: The Influence of Hong Kong Action Cinema upon the Contemporary French Avant-garde
  2. pp. 163-174
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  1. 11. At the Edge of the Cut: An Encounter with the Hong Kong Style in Contemporary Action Cinema
  2. pp. 175-188
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  1. Part 3. Translation and Embodiment: Technologies of Globalisation
  1. 12. Wuxia Redux: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as a Model of Late Transnational Production
  2. pp. 191-204
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  1. 13. Hong Kong Film and the New Cinephilia
  2. pp. 205-222
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  1. 14. Action Cinema, Labour Power an dthe Video Market
  2. pp. 223-248
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  1. 15. Spectral Critiques: Tracking "Uncanny" Filmic Paths Towards a Bio-Poetics o fTrans-Pacific Globalization
  2. pp. 249-268
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  1. 16. Technoscience Culture, Embodiment and Wuda pian
  2. pp. 269-286
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 287-326
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 327-343
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