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Hong Kong Horror Cinema

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
240 Seiten
Englisch
Edinburgh University Presserschienen am31.08.2019
Hong Kong Horror Cinemaoffers new insights into the history of Hong Kong horror through case studies of classic films and through a detailed consideration of their aesthetic power, economic significance, and cultural impact in both the global and domestic market.mehr
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Produkt

KlappentextHong Kong Horror Cinemaoffers new insights into the history of Hong Kong horror through case studies of classic films and through a detailed consideration of their aesthetic power, economic significance, and cultural impact in both the global and domestic market.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-4744-5222-9
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsjahr2019
Erscheinungsdatum31.08.2019
Seiten240 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 10 mm
Gewicht249 g
Artikel-Nr.52010443

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction, Gary Bettinson & Daniel Martin; Part I: Formations and Fragmentations: The Development of Hong Kong Horror; Chapter 1: What Can a Neoi Gwei Teach Us? Adaptation as Reincarnation in Hong Kong Horror of the 1950s, Raymond Tsang; Chapter 2: The White Snake in Hong Kong Horror Cinema: From Horrific Tales to Crowd Pleasers, Liang Luo; Chapter 3: From Killer Snakes to Taxi Hunters: Hong Kong Horror in an Exploitation Context, Andy Willis; Chapter 4: The Enduring Cult of The Bride with White Hair: Chivalry and the Monstrous Other in the Hong Kong Fantasy-Horror, Daniel Martin; Part II: Genre Hybridity: Comedy and Kung-Fu in the Hong Kong Horror; Chapter 5: Animated Pasts and Unseen Futures: On the Comic Element in Hong Kong Horror, Andrew Grossman; Chapter 6: Performing (Comic) Abjection in the Hong Kong Ghost Story, Felicia Chan; Chapter 7: Hands, Fingers, and Fists: 'Grasping' Hong Kong Horror Films, David Scott Diffrient; Chapter 8: Tsui Hark's Detective Dee Films: Police Procedural Colludes with Supernatural-Martial Arts Cinema, Kenneth Chan; Part III: Transnational Trends: Globalization and Politics in Contemporary Hong Kong Horror; Chapter 9: Cross-Border Implications: Transnational Haunting, Gender, and the Persistent Look of The Eye, Enrique Ajuria Ibarra; Chapter 10: Food for Thought: Cannibalism in The Untold Story and Dumplings, Lisa Odham Stokes; Chapter 11: Sympathy for the Slasher: Strategies of Character Engagement in Pang Ho-cheung's Dream Home, Gary Bettinson; Chapter 12: Ghostly Returns: The Politics of Horror in Hong Kong Cinema, Vivian Leemehr

Autor

Gary Bettinson is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Lancaster University. He is the author of The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance (Hong Kong University Press, 2015) and editor of Asian Cinema (Intellect Press).

Daniel Martin is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). His recent research concerns the international circulation of films from East Asia. He is the author of Extreme Asia: The Rise of Cult Cinema from the Far East (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), co-editor of Korean Horror Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2013).