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UNINA9910808386303321 |
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Titolo |
At full speed : Hong Kong cinema in a borderless world / / Esther C.M. Yau, editor |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2001 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Motion pictures - China - Hong Kong - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-322) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World -- Part I. Hong Kong's New Wave Cinema -- 1. An Overview of Hong Kong's New Wave Cinema -- 2. The Emergence of the Hong Kong New Wave -- Part ll. In Action: Entertainment, Aesthetics, and Reinventions -- 3. Aesthetics in Action: Kungfu, Gunplay, and Cinematic Expressivity -- 4. The Killer: Cult Film and Transcultural (Mis)Reading -- 5. Life Imitates Entertainment: Home and Dislocation in the Films of Jackie Chan -- 6. Tsui Hark: National Style and Polemic -- 7. Hong Kong Hysteria: Martial Arts Tales from a Mutating World -- 8. Women on the Edges of Hong Kong Modernity: The Films of Ann Hui -- Part III. A Culture of Disappearance: Nostalgia, Nonsense, and Dislocation -- 9. A Souvenir of Love -- 10. Film and Enigmatization: Nostalgia, Nonsense, and Remembering -- 11. Transnational Exchanges, Questions of Culture, and Global Cinema: Defining the Dynamics of Changing Relationships -- 12. Transnationalization of the Local in Hong Kong Cinema of the 1990s -- 13. The Intimate Spaces of Wong Kar-wai -- Glossary -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z. |
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Breathtaking swordplay and nostalgic love, Peking opera and Chow Yun-Fat's cult followers-these are some of the elements of the vivid and diverse urban imagination that find form and expression in the thriving Hong Kong cinema. All receive their due in At Full Speed, a |
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volume that captures the remarkable range and energy of a cinema that borrows, invents, and reinvents across the boundaries of time, culture, and conventions. |
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