Esther C.M. Yau
At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World
- ISBN 13:
- 9780816632350
- author:
- Esther C.M. Yau
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2001
- Pages:
- 352
- Dimensions:
- 25.35 x 17.83 x 1.93 centimetres
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography, Performing Arts, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 20 working days
Description
At Full Speed: A Vibrant Portrait of Hong Kong Cinema This book offers a comprehensive and insightful exploration of the diverse urban imagination that finds form in Hong Kong cinema. Drawing on film scholars and critics from around the globe, it captures the remarkable range and energy of this thriving industry. The contributors scrutinize the films they find captivating, examining the aesthetics of action, gender-flexible melodramatic excesses, objects of nostalgia, and globally projected local history and identities that define Hong Kong cinema. Through their work, the book brings the pleasures and idiosyncrasies of this cinema into clear focus, while also enlarging on the relationships between art and the market, cultural theory and the movies. By shedding light on the transnational, multilayered character of Hong Kong films, At Full Speed provides a unique and incisive account of one of the world's largest film industries.
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