Hong Kong Connections

Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema

Hong Kong Connections was written by Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung Li, and Stephen Ching-kiu Chan. The 358 page book was published by Hong Kong University Press in 2005 with an ISBN 10 of 1932643192. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. Hong Kong Connections mentions 1 serial killers including Steven Grieveson. The author Meaghan Morris has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world's most popular cultural genres: action cinema. Hong Kong action films have proved popular over the decades with audiences worldwide, and they have seized the imaginations of filmmakers working in many different cultural traditions and styles. How do we account for this appeal, which changes as it crosses national borders? Hong Kong Connections brings leading film scholars together to explore the uptake of Hong Kong cinema in Japan, Korea, India, Australia, France and the US as well as its links with Taiwan, Singapore and the Chinese mainland. In the process, this collective study examines diverse cultural contexts for action cinema's popularity, and the problems involved...