Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema
ISBN: 9789882201583
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Hong Kong University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Adventure films -- History and criticism; Adventure films -- China -- Hong Kong -- History and criticism;

Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the worldOCOs 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 cinemaOCOs 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 cinemaOCOs influence we need to bring out the differences as well as the links that constitute popularity."


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