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Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema

Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema

Morris, Meaghan
Li, Siu Leung
Ching-Kiu, Stephen Chan

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Film Studies

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ISBN10: 1932643192
ISBN13: 9781932643190
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 24 2006
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world's most popular cultural genres: action cinema. Hong Kong action films have proved popular over the decades with audiences worldwide, and they have seized the imaginations of filmmakers working in many different cultural traditions and styles. How do we account for this appeal, which changes as it crosses national borders?

Hong Kong Connections brings leading film scholars together to explore the circulation of Hong Kong cinema in Japan, Korea, India, Australia, France, and the United States, as well as its links with Taiwan, Singapore, and the Chinese mainland. In the process, this collection examines diverse cultural contexts for action cinema's popularity and the problems involved in the transnational study of globally popular forms, suggesting that in order to grasp the history of Hong Kong action cinema's influence we need to bring out the differences as well as the links that constitute popularity.

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