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Arresting Cinema : Surveillance in Hong Kong Film /
When Ridley Scott envisioned Blade Runner's set as "Hong Kong on a bad day," he nodded to the city's overcrowding as well as its widespread use of surveillance. But while Scott brought Hong Kong and surveillance into the global film repertoire, the city's own cinema has rema...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Introduction: A Race of Peeping Toms? "Rear Window Ethics" in Hong Kong
- ONE. Watching the Watchman: Michael Hui's Surveillance Comedies
- TWO. On the "China Watch": Prosperity and Paranoia in Reunification-Era Cinema
- THREE. "Only" a Policeman: Joint Venture Cinema and the Mediatization of the Hong Kong Police
- FOUR. "Representing the Chinese Government": Hong Kong Undercover in an Age of Self-Censorship
- Conclusion: Toward a Global Surveillance Cinema
- Appendix: Chinese Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index