| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 342 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-331) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| In |
HKU Press digital editions |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- China -- Hong Kong -- History
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Masculinity in motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Masculinity in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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Hongkongfilm
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Männlichkeit Motiv
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China -- Hong Kong
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pang, Laikwan
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Wong, Day
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| ISBN |
9789882202221 |
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9882202225 |
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1282704958 |
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9781282704954 |
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9786612704956 |
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6612704950 |
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