- Description
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Summary
- At the core of this work is a fascinating paradox: the martial arts film, long regarded as a vehicle of Chinese cultural nationalism, can also be understood as a mass cultural expression of Hong Kong's modern urban-industrial society. This important and popular genre, Man-Fung Yip argues, articulates the experiential qualities, the competing social subjectivities and gender discourses, as well as the heightened circulation of capital, people, goods, information, and technologies in Hong Kong of the 1960s and 1970s. This text also offers perceptive analyses of individual films, including not only the canonical works of King Hu, Chang Cheh, and Bruce Lee, but also many lesser-known ones by Lau Kar-leung and Chor Yuen, among others, that have not been adequately discussed before.
- Subject
- Note
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
- Audience (note)
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 28, 2017).
- ISBN
- 9789888390397
- OCLC
- EDZ0001718636
- Author
Yip, Man-Fung, 1973- author.
- Title
Martial arts cinema and Hong Kong modernity : aesthetics, representation, circulation / Man-Fung Yip.
- Publisher
Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
text
still image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
- Audience
Specialized.
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