Masculinities and Hong Kong cinema:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hong Kong Hong Kong University Press ©2005
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-331) and index
Introduction - Diversity of masculinities in Hong Kong cinema - Laikwan Pang -- - Making movies male : Zhang Che and the Shaw brothers martial arts movies, 1965-1975 - David Desser -- - Post-1977 Hong Kong masculinity - Laikwan Pang -- - Queering masculinity in Hong Kong movies - Travis S.K. Kong -- - Unsung heroes : reading transgender subjectivities in Hong Kong action cinema - Helen Hok-sze Leung -- - Kung Fu films in diaspora : death of the bamboo hero - Sheng-mei Ma -- - Obtuse music and the nebulous male : the haunting presence of Taiwan in Hong Kong films of the 1990s - Shen Shiao-Ying -- - Fighting female masculinity : women warriors and their foreignness in Hong Kong action cinema of the 1980s - Kwai-cheung Lo -- - Unworthy subject : slaughter, cannibalism and postcoloniality - James A. Steintrager -- - Bringing breasts into the mainstream - Yeeshan Chan -- - Post-Fordist production and the re-appropriation of Hong Kong masculinity in Hollywood - Wai Kit Choi -- - Masculinities in self-invention : critics' discourses on Kung Fu-action movies and comedies - Agnes S. Ku -- - Women's reception of mainstream Hong Kong cinema - Day Wong
This collection of exciting essays explores how the representations and the ideologies of masculinities can be productively studied in the context of Hong Kong cinema. It has two objectives: first, to investigate the multiple meanings and manifestations o
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 342 pages)
ISBN:1282704958
9781282704954
9789882202221
9882202225

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