Table of Contents
Acknowledgments x
Notes on Contributors xi
Foreword xviiiAckbar Abbas
Introduction 1Esther M.K. Cheung, Gina Marchetti, and Esther C.M. Yau
Part I Critical Paradigms: Defining Hong Kong Cinema Studies 15
1 Watchful Partners, Hidden Currents: Hong Kong Cinema Moving into the Mainland of China 17Esther C.M. Yau
2 The Urban Maze: Crisis and Topography in Hong Kong Cinema 51Esther M.K. Cheung
3 Hong Kong Cinema as Ethnic Borderland 71Kwai-cheung Lo
4 Hong Kong Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalization and Mainlandization: Hong Kong SAR New Wave as a Cinema of Anxiety 89Mirana May Szeto and Yun-chung Chen
Commentary: Dimensions of Hong Kong Cinema 116Sheldon Lu
Part II Critical Geographies 121
5 Hong Kong Cinema’s Exotic Others: Re-examining the Hong Kong Body in the Context of Asian Regionalism 123Olivia Khoo
6 Animating the Translocal: The McDull Films as a Cultural and Visual Expression of Hong Kong 140Kimburley Wing-yee Choi and Steve Fore
7 Globalizing Hong Kong Cinema Through Japan 168David Desser
8 Creative Cinematic Geographies Through the Hong Kong International Film Festival 185Cindy Hing-yuk Wong
9 Postmodernity, Han Normativity, and Hong Kong Cinema 207Evans Chan
Commentary: Critical Geographies 225Stephen Yiu-wai Chu
Part III The Gendered Body and Queer Configurations 235
10 Feminism, Postfeminism, and Hong Kong Women Filmmakers 237Gina Marchetti
11 Love In The City: The Placing of Intimacy in Urban Romance Films 265Helen Hok-sze Leung
12 Regulating Queer Domesticity in the Neoliberal Diaspora 284Audrey Yue
Commentary: To Love is to Demand: A Very Short Commentary 303Shu-mei Shih
Part IV Hong Kong Stars 305
13 Return of the Dragon: Handover, Hong Kong Cinema, and Chinese Ethno-nationalism 307Paul Bowman
14 Transitional Stardom: The Case of Jimmy Wang Yu 322Tony Williams
15 Camp Stars of Androgyny: A Study of Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui’s Body Images of Desire 341Natalia Siu-hung Chan
16 Cooling Faye Wong: A Cosmopolitical Intervention 359Kin-Yan Szeto
Commentary: Hong Kong Stars and Stardom 379Gary Bettinson
Part V Narratives and Aesthetics 389
17 Making Merry on Time: A Feast of Nostalgia in Watching Chinese New Year Films 391Fiona Yuk-wa Law
18 A Pan-Asian Cinema of Allusion: Going Home and Dumplings 410Bliss Cua Lim
19 Double Agents, Cameos, and the Poor Man’s Orchestra: Music and Place in Chungking Express 440Giorgio Biancorosso
20 Documenting Sentiments in Video Diaries around 1997: Archeology of Forgotten Screen Practices 462Linda Chiu-han Lai
Commentary: The Dynamics of Off-Centeredness in Hong Kong Cinema 489Yingjin Zhang
Part VI Screen Histories and Documentary Practices 499
21 The Lightness of History: Screening the Past in Hong Kong Cinema 501Vivian P.Y. Lee
22 The Tales of Fang Peilin and Zhu Shilin: From Rethinking Hong Kong Cinema to Rewriting Chinese Film History 523Ain-ling Wong
23 The Documentary Film in Hong Kong 539Ian Aitken and Mike Ingham
24 Representations of Law in Hong Kong Cinema 560Marco Wan
Commentary: Cinema and the Cultural Politics of Identity: Hong Kong No More? A Commentary on the Verge of Postcolonial Locality 577Stephen Ching-kiu Chan
Filmography 585
Index 602