Johnnie To Kei-Fung's PTU

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Chapter 1 Introducing the Film; Introducing Johnnie — ‘One of Our Own’ 1. E. Cheung and J. Ku, ‘Gendered and Sexualized Bodies in Hong Kong Cinema’ in E. Cheung and Y. W. Chu (eds.) Between Home and World, A Reader in Hong Kong Cinema. Oxford University Press, 2004, 408–9. 2. A. Abbas, ‘Hong Kong as a Para-site’ in M. Hjort and D. Petrie (eds.) The Cinema of Small Nations. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007, 117. 3. K. C. Lo, ‘Transnationalisation of the Local in a Circular Structure’ in K. C. Lo, Chinese Face/Off — The Transnational Popular Culture of Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005, 106. 4. Yiu Wai Chu, ‘Hybridity and G(local) Identity in Postcolonial Hong Kong Cinema’ in S. H. Lu and Y. Y. E. Yueh (eds.), Chinese-Language Film — Historiography, Poetics, Politics. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005, 324. 5. P. Willemen, ‘Action Cinema, Labour Power and the Video Market’ in M. Morris et al. (eds.) Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Notes Imagination in Action Cinema. London: Duke University Press & Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005, 223–47. 6. Interview with Miles Wood in M. Wood, Cine East: Hong Kong Cinema through the Looking-Glass. London: FAB Press, 1998, 121. 7. Interview with Stephen Teo in S. Teo, Director in Action—Johnnie To and the Hong Kong Action Film. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007. 8. Interview with Shirley Lau, South China Morning Post, May, 2003. 9. E. Cheshire, and J. Ashbrook, Joel and Ethan Coen. Pocket Essential Film, 2002, 8. 10. P. Fonoroff, South China Morning Post, 1.5.2003. 11. TJ review in Time Out, 4–10 July 2007. 12. Ibid. 13. 27thHong Kong International Film Festival booklet, 8–23 April 2003, 13. 14. John Woo quoted in interview in Karen Fang’s study of John’s Woo A Better Tomorrow. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004. 15. ‘Et voilà. Maintenant le ressort est bandé. Cela n’a plus qu’à se dérouler tout seul … Après, on n’a plus qu’à laisser faire ... Cela roule tout seul.’ J. Anouilh, Antigone. Paris: Editions de la Table Ronde, 1946, 54. 16. S. Teo, Director in Action, 11. 17. D. Bordwell, ‘Transcultural Spaces’ in Chinese-Language Film, 148. 18. D. Bordwell, Planet Hong Kong — Popular Cinema and the Arts of Entertainment. Cambridge, Mass. & London: Harvard University Press, 2000, 246. 19. S. Teo, Keynote speech in Conference on The Film Scene: Cinema, The Arts and Social Change, University of Hong Kong, April, 2005. 20. J. To in interview with the author, 20 August 2007. 21. D. Bordwell, Planet Hong Kong, 131. Chapter 2 ‘Into the Perilous Night’ — Police and Gangsters in the Hong Kong Mean Streets 1. A. Abbas, Hong Kong Culture and the Politics of Disappearance. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Unversity Press, 1997, 23. L 128 Notes to pp. 9–37 2. L. Pun, ‘The Emotional Map of Hong Kong Cinema’ in @LOCATION, 75. 3. L. Pun, ‘The Emotional Map’, 77. 4. S. Teo, Director in Action, 129. 5. A. Abbas, Hong Kong Culture, 76. 6. S. Teo, Director in Action, 114. 7. A. Abbas, Hong Kong Culture, 78. 8. N. Law, report in South China Morning Post, 9 July 2006. 9. S. Teo, Director in Action, 9. 10. Hong Kong Police government website. Chapter 3 ‘Expect the Unexpected’ — PTU’s Narrative and Aesthetics 1. D. Bordwell, ‘Transcultural Spaces’ in Chinese Language Film, 147. 2. S. Teo, Director in Action, 130. 3. E. Knörer, ‘Ein Meisterwek der Konzentration’ (‘A masterpiece of concentration’), Jump Cut, http:// www.jump-cut.de/filmkritik-ptu. html/. Chapter 4 The Coda: What’s the Story? — Morning Glory! 1. Translated version from ‘Highlights from the Johnnie To interview on the PTU DVD’, http://www.hkentreview.com/2003/features/jtptu. html. 2. B. Walsh, Time Asia, 12 May 2003. 3. S. Teo, Director in Action, 143. 4. S. Teo, ibid., 146. 5. D. Cook, A History of Narrative Film, 3rd edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 1981, 971. 6. D. Bordwell, Planet Hong Kong, 98. 7. G. Marchetti, Andrew Lau and Alan Mak’s Infernal Affairs – The Trilogy. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007, 164. 8. D. Bordwell, Planet Hong Kong. L Notes to pp. 37–120 129 9. R. Barthes. ‘The Death of the Author’ in Image, Music, Text. Fontana/ Collins, 1977, 142–48. 10. Interview for Jean-Pierre Le Dionnet’s Des...