Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and New Global Cinema: No Film is An Island (Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia)

In recent years, with the establishment of the Hong Kong Film Archive and growing scholarly interest in the history of Hong Kong cinema, previously neglected historical documents and difficult-to-access films have offered new research materials. As Hong Kong film history comes into sharper focus, its inextricable links across the decades to Southeast Asia, Korea, Japan, the United States, and to the far reaches of the Chinese diaspora have also become more evident. Hong Kong’s connection with Hollywood involves ties that bring together art cinema and popular genres as well as film festivals and the media marketplace with popular transnational genres. Giving fresh and facsinating insights into the vibrant area of Hong Kong, this exciting new book links Hong Kong with world film culture both within and beyond the commercial Hollywood paradigm. It emphasizes Hong Kong film in relation to other cinema industries, including Hollywood, and demonstrates that Hong Kong film, throughout its history, has challenged, redefined, expanded, and exceeded its borders. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Contributors......Page 8 Preface......Page 12 Acknowledgements......Page 14 Introduction: Hong Kong cinema and global change......Page 16 Part I Chinese on the move: ‘Hongkongers’ abroad......Page 26 1 From South Pacific to Shanghai Blues: No film is an island......Page 28 2 The heroic flux in John Woo’s trans-Pacific passage: From Confucian brotherhood to American selfhood......Page 50 3 Hong Kong film goes to America......Page 65 4 Hong Kong television in Chinatown: Translocal context(s) and transnational social formations......Page 78 5 Thailand in the Hong Kong cinematic imagination......Page 92 6 Hong Kong-Australian imaginaries: Three Australian films by Clara Law......Page 106 Part II To-ing and fro-ing: Transnational genres......Page 122 7 Generic ghosts: Remaking the new ‘Asian horror film’......Page 124 8 Copies of copies in Hollywood and Hong Kong cinemas: Rethinking the woman-warrior figures......Page 141 9 The Noir East: Hong Kong filmmakers’ transmutation of a Hollywood genre?......Page 152 10 Scenes of ‘in-action’ and noir characteristics in the films of Johnnie To (Kei-Fung)......Page 174 Part III International players and a global niche......Page 180 11 Hong Kong goes international: The case of Golden Harvest......Page 182 12 Distant screens: Film festivals and the global projection of Hong Kong cinema......Page 192 13 Competing regions: The chromatics of the urban fix......Page 208 14 Jackie Chan, tourism, and the performing agency......Page 221 15 Niche cinema, or, Kill Bill with Shaolin Soccer......Page 234 Notes......Page 248 Bibliography......Page 278 Index......Page 292 From South Pacific to Shanghai blues: no film is an island / Tan See Kam The heroic flux in John Woo's trans-Pacific passage: from Confucian brotherhood to American selfhood / Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park Hong Kong film goes to America / Staci Ford Hong Kong television in Chinatown: translocal context(s) and transnational social formations / Amy Lee Thailand in the Hong Kong cinematic imagination / Adam Knee Hong Kong-Australian imaginaries: three Australian films by Clara Law / Tony Mitchell Generic ghosts: remaking the new 'Asian horror film' / Bliss Cua Lim Copies of copies in Hollywood and Hong Kong cinemas: rethinking the woman-warrior figures / Kwai-Cheung Lo The noir East: Hong Kong's transmutation of a Hollywood Genre? / Joelle Collier Scenes of 'in-action' and noir characteristics in the films of Johnnie To (Kei-Fung) / Peter Rist Hong Kong goes international: the case of Golden Harvest / Michael Walsh Distant screens: film festivals and the global projection of Hong Kong cinema / Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong Competing regions: the chromatics of the urban fix / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and John Gammack Jackie Chan, tourism, and the performing agency / Laikwan Pang Niche cinema, or, Kill Bill with Shaolin soccer / Peter Hitchcock "This book examines a wide range of aspects of Hong Kong cinema, and discusses the role of Hong Kong cinema in changing global film markets. It explores Hong Kong cinema's inextricable links with China, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, Australia, the United States, and the Chinese diaspora. It considers Hong Kong's connection with Hollywood, which involves ties that bring together art cinema and popular genres as well as film festivals and the media marketplace with popular transnational genres, and demonstrates how Hong Kong film, throughout its history, has challenged, redefined, expanded, and exceeded its borders. Overall, this book examines Hong Kong film in the contexts of globally interconnected filmmaking practices and film scholarship."--Jacket Edited By Gina Marchetti And Tan See Kam. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [263]-276) And Index.