Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema
- ISBN-10
- 1932643192
- ISBN-13
- 9781932643190
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 358
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-10-01
- Publisher
- Hong Kong University Press
- Authors
- Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung Li, Stephen Ching-kiu Chan
Description
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 uptake of Hong Kong cinema in Japan, Korea, India, Australia, France and the US as well as its links with Taiwan, Singapore and the Chinese mainland. In the process, this collective study 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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