Hong Kong horror cinema /

"Dumplings stuffed with diabolical fillings. Sword-wielding zombies. Hopping cadavers. Big-head babies. For decades, Hong Kong cinema has served up images of horror quite unlike those found in other parts of the world. In seminal films such as A Chinese Ghost Story, Rouge, The Eye, Dumplings, a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bettinson, Gary (Editor ), Martin, Daniel (Professor of Film Studies) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Horror films > China > Hong Kong > History and criticism.
Films d'horreur > Chine > Hongkong > Histoire et critique.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Horror films
China > Hong Kong
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Formations and Fragmentations: The Development of Hong Kong Horror. What Can a Neoi Gwei Teach Us? Adaptation as Reincarnation in Hong Kong Horror of the 1950s / Raymond Tsang
  • The White Snake in Hong Kong Horror Cinema: From Horrific Tales to Crowd Pleasers / Liang Luo
  • From Killer Snakes to Taxi Hunters: Hong Kong Horror in an Exploitation Context / Andy Willis
  • 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. Animated Pasts and Unseen Futures: On the Comic Element in Hong Kong Horror / Andrew Grossman
  • Performing (Comic) Abjection in the Hong Kong Ghost Story / Felicia Chan
  • Hands, Fingers, and Fists: 'Grasping' Hong Kong Horror Films / David Scott Diffrient
  • Tsui Hark's Detective Dee Films: Police Procedural Colludes with Supernatural-Martial Arts Cinema / Kenneth Chan
  • Part III: Transnational Trends: Globalisation and Politics in Contemporary Hong Kong Horror. Cross-Border Implications: Transnational Haunting, Gender, and the Persistent Look of The Eye / Enrique Ajuria Ibarra
  • Food for Thought: Cannibalism in The Untold Story and Dumplings / Lisa Odham Stokes
  • Sympathy for the Slasher: Strategies of Character Engagement in Pang Ho-cheung's Dream Home / Gary Bettinson
  • Ghostly Returns: The Politics of Horror in Hong Kong Cinema / Vivian Lee.

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