An edition of Hong Kong cinema since 1997 (2009)

Hong Kong cinema since 1997

the post-nostalgic imagination

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"Taking as its point of departure the three recurrent themes of nostalgia, memory and local histories, this book is an attempt to map out a new poetics -- the post-nostalgic imagination -- in Hong Kong cinema in the first decade of Chinese rule"--Provided by publisher.

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Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
254

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Hong Kong cinema since 1997: the post-nostalgic imagination
2009, Palgrave Macmillan
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Table of Contents

Introduction
pt. 1. Time and memory. Post-nostalgia: In the mood for love and 2046
Cinematic remembrances: Ordinary heroes and Little Cheung
Allegory, kinship, and redemption: Fu Bo and Isabella
pt. 2. Schizophrenia, amnesia, and cinephilia
Lost in the cosmopolitan crime zone: Johnnie To's urban legends
The Kung Fu hero in the digital age: Stephen Chow's 'glocal' strategies
Karmic redemption: memory and schizophrenia in Hong Kong action films
pt. 3. In and out.
Migrants in a strange city: (Dis-)locating the China imaginary
Outside the nation: the Pan-Asian trajectory of Applause Pictures
The Hong Kong multiplex: an unfolding narrative.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-249) and index.

Includes filmography: p. 239-241.

Published in
Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.4309512/0905
Library of Congress
PN1993.5.H6 L44 2009, PN1992.63PN1995.9.P7

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 254 p. ;
Number of pages
254

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24462737M
Internet Archive
hongkongcinemasi0000leev
ISBN 13
9780230221437
LCCN
2009043489
OCLC/WorldCat
298778305

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