AtthecoreofMartialArtsCinemaandHongKongModernity:Aesthetics,Representation,Circulationisafascinatingparadox:themartialartsfilm,longregardedasavehicleofChineseculturalnationalism,canalsobeunderstoodasamassculturalexpressionofHongKong’smodernurban-industrialsociety.Thisimportantandpopulargenre,Man-FungYipargues,articulatestheexperientialqualities,thecompetingsocialsubjectivitiesandgenderdiscourses,aswellastheheightenedcirculationofcapital,people,goods,information,andtechnologiesinHongKongofthe1960sand1970s.InadditiontoprovidinganovelconceptualframeworkforthestudyofHongKongmartialartscinemaandsheddinglightonthenexusbetweensocialchangeandcultural/aestheticform,thisbookoffersperceptiveanalysesofindividualfilms,includingnotonlythecanonicalworksofKingHu,ChangCheh,andBruceLee,butalsomanylesser-knownonesbyLauKar-leungandChorYuen,amongothers,thathavenotbeenadequatelydiscussedbefore.Thoroughlyresearchedandlucidlywritten,Yip’sstimulatingstudywillignitedebatesinnewdirectionsforbothscholarsandfansofChinese-languagemartialartscinema.
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