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- Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: Hong Kong University Press, HKU
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Contributors
- pp. xi-xvi
- Part 1. History, Imagination and Hong Kong Popular Culture
- Part 2. Action Cinema as Contact Zone
- Part 3. Translation and Embodiment: Technologies of Globalisation
- 13. Hong Kong Film and the New Cinephilia
- pp. 205-222
Additional Information
ISBN
9789882201583
Related ISBN(s)
9781932643015
MARC Record
OCLC
642690004
Pages
358
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No