Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Contributors xi
Introduction: Hong Kong Connections / Meaghan Morris 1
Part 1: History, Imagination and Hong Kong Popular Culture 19
1. Moving Body: The Interactions Between Chinese Opera and Action Cinema / Yung Sai-shing 21
2. Interactions Between Japanese and Hong Kong Action Cinemas / Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting 35
3. The Myth Continues: Cinematic Kung Fu in Modernity / Siu Leung Li 49
4. The Fighting Condition in Hong Kong Cinema: Local Icons and Cultural Antidotes for the Global Popular / Stephen Chan Ching-kiu 63
5. Order/Anti-Order: Representation of Identity in Hong Kong Action Movies / Dai Jinhua 81
Part 2: Action Cinema as Contact Zone 95
6. Genre as Contact Zone: Hong Kong Action and Korean Hwalkuk / Kim Soyoung 97
7. Hong Kong Action Film and the Career of the Telugu Mass Hero / S. V. Srinivas 111
8. Hong Kong-Hollywood-Bombay: On the Function of "Martial Art" in the Hindi Action Cinema / Valentina Vitali 125
9. Let's Miscegenate: Jackie Chan and His African-American Connection / Laleen Jayamanne 151
10. The Secrets of Movement: The Influence of Hong Kong Action Cinema upon the Contemporary French Avant-garde / Nicole Brenez 163
11. At the Edge of the Cut: An Encounter with the Hong Kong Style in Contemporary Action Cinema / Adrian Martin 175
Part 3: Translation and Embodiment: Technologies of Globalisation 189
12. Wuxia Redux: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as a Model of Late Transnational Production / Stephen Teo 191
13. Hong Kong Film and the New Cinephilia / David Desser 205
14. Action Cinema, Labour Power and the Video Market / Paul Willemen 223
15. Spectral Critiques: Tracking "Uncanny" Filmic Paths Towards a Bio-Poetics of Trans-Pacific Globalization / Rob Wilson 249
16. Technoscience Culture, Embodiment and Wuda pian / Wong Kin-yuen 269
Notes 287
Index 327

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Leading film scholars explore the circulation of Hong Kong action cinema in Japan, Korea, India, Australia, France, and the United States, as well as its links with Taiwan, Singapore, and the Chinese mainland

About the Author

Meaghan Morris is Chair Professor of Cultural Studies and Coordinator of the Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Programme at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.

Siu Leung Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.

Stephen Chan Ching-kiu is a Professor and Director of the Master of Cultural Studies Programme at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.

Reviews

"This book examines the historical evolution of Hong Kong action cinema as well as its emergence as a transnational film genre in the era of globalization. It is the most well-organized, theoretically sophisticated, and critically engaging study of the subject that we have seen. It is a pleasure to read each of the essays, which are both erudite and interesting." Sheldon Lu, coeditor of Chinese-language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics