Hong Kong Cinema and Sinophone Transnationalisms
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| Title: | Hong Kong Cinema and Sinophone Transnationalisms |
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| Description: | Hong Kong Cinema and Sinophone Transnationalisms explores the intricate complexity of selected films and film-making practices from 1930s Hong Kong (and Shanghai) to the later ‘new wave'phenomenon of the 1980s. The result is a Sinophone cinema that created some very different ways of understanding ‘China'and ‘Chineseness', developing their own ‘cosmopolitan dreaming'within the cultural and economic changes of those times. Exploring sinification and its multiple manifestations in film, the book examines cinematic genres including Huangmei Opera films, qiqing (strange or queer romance) films, fanchuaners (professional cross-sex performers) in film, Hong Kong's Bond Movies (bangpian), erotic (fengyue) films, and New Wave Hong Kong cinema. In doing so, this book lays fruitful foundations for further understanding the development and changing faces of Hong Kong films and sinophone transnationalism in the even more complex and changing times of today. |
| Authors: | See Kam Tan |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | National characteristics, Chinese, Chinese in motion pictures, Motion pictures--China--Hong Kong--History--20th century, National characteristics in motion pictures |
| Categories: | PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Hong Kong Cinema and Sinophone Transnationalisms explores the intricate complexity of selected films and film-making practices from 1930s Hong Kong (and Shanghai) to the later ‘new wave'phenomenon of the 1980s. The result is a Sinophone cinema that created some very different ways of understanding ‘China'and ‘Chineseness', developing their own ‘cosmopolitan dreaming'within the cultural and economic changes of those times. Exploring sinification and its multiple manifestations in film, the book examines cinematic genres including Huangmei Opera films, qiqing (strange or queer romance) films, fanchuaners (professional cross-sex performers) in film, Hong Kong's Bond Movies (bangpian), erotic (fengyue) films, and New Wave Hong Kong cinema. In doing so, this book lays fruitful foundations for further understanding the development and changing faces of Hong Kong films and sinophone transnationalism in the even more complex and changing times of today. |
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| ISBN: | 9781474476362 9781474476386 9781474476393 |
