Taking as its point of departure the three recurrent themes of nostalgia, memory and local histories, this book is an attempt to map out a new poetics - the 'post-nostalgic imagination' - in Hong Kong cinema in the first decade of Chinese rule. INDICE: Introduction - PART I: TIME AND MEMORY - Post-Nostalgia: In the Mood for Love and 2046 - Cinematic Remembrances: Ordinary Heroes and Little Cheung - Allegory, Kinship, and Redemption: Fu Bo and Isabella - PART II: SCHIZOPHRENIA, AMNESIA AND CINEPHILIA - Lost in the Cosmopolitan Crime Zone: Johnnie To's Urban Legends - The Kung Fu Hero in the Digital Age: Stephen Chow's 'Glocal' Strategies - Karmic Redemption: Memory and Schizophrenia in Hong Kong Action Films - PART III: IN AND OUT - Migrants in a Strange City: (Dis-)locating the China Imaginary - Outside the Nation: the Pan-Asian Trajectory of Applause Pictures - The Hong Kong Multiplex: An Unfolding Narrative - Notes - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-22143-7
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha Publicación: 29/09/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés