A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema
Esther M. K. Cheung, Gina Marchetti, Esther C. M. YauExamines Hong Kong cinema within an interdisciplinary context, drawing connections between media, gender, and Asian studies, Asian regional studies, Chinese language and cultural studies, global studies, and critical theory.
Highlights the often contentious debates that shape current thinking about film as a medium and its possible future.
Investigates how changing research on gender, the body, and sexual orientation alters the ways in which we analyze sexual difference in Hong Kong cinema.
Charts how developments in theories of colonialism, postcolonialism, globalization, neoliberalism, Orientalism, and nationalism transform our understanding of the economics and politics of the Hong Kong film industry.
Explores how the concepts of diaspora, nostalgia, exile, and trauma offer opportunities to rethink accepted ways of understanding Hong Kong’s popular cinematic genres and stars