Masculinities and Hong Kong cinema /
This collection of exciting essays explores how the representations and the ideologies of masculinities can be productively studied in the context of Hong Kong cinema. It has two objectives: first, to investigate the multiple meanings and manifestations o.
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Hong Kong : London :
Hong Kong University Press ; Eurospan [distributor],
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction, Diversity of masculinities in Hong Kong cinema / Laikwan Pang
- Making movies male : Zhang Che and the Shaw brothers martial arts movies, 1965-1975 / David Desser
- Post-1977 Hong Kong masculinity / Laikwan Pang
- Queering masculinity in Hong Kong movies / Travis S.K. Kong
- Unsung heroes : reading transgender subjectivities in Hong Kong action cinema / Helen Hok-sze Leung
- Kung Fu films in diaspora : death of the bamboo hero / Sheng-mei Ma
- Obtuse music and the nebulous male : the haunting presence of Taiwan in Hong Kong films of the 1990s / Shen Shiao-Ying
- Fighting female masculinity : women warriors and their foreignness in Hong Kong action cinema of the 1980s / Kwai-cheung Lo
- Unworthy subject : slaughter, cannibalism and postcoloniality / James A. Steintrager
- Bringing breasts into the mainstream / Yeeshan Chan
- Post-Fordist production and the re-appropriation of Hong Kong masculinity in Hollywood / Wai Kit Choi
- Masculinities in self-invention : critics' discourses on Kung Fu-action movies and comedies / Agnes S. Ku
- Women's reception of mainstream Hong Kong cinema / Day Wong.