The editors of the media studies journal Post Script are pleased to
announce the publication of a special issue (Vol. 19, No. 1) devoted to
Hong Kong cinema. The issue contains essays on topics of both historical
and contemporary relevance, and includes considerations of current
production, distribution, and marketing trends within the SAR movie
industry, discussions of the multiple global audiences for Hong Kong
movies, analyses of thematic and stylistic issues raised by recent films
and filmmakers, and historiographical critiques of significant artistic,
social, and political trends.
Guest Editor: Steve Fore, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong
Kong
Post Script General Editor: Gerald Duchovnay, Department of Literature and
Languages, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Table of Contents:
Steve Fore, "Introduction: Hong Kong Movies, Critical Time Warps, and
Shapes of Things to Come"
Cheuk Pak-Tong (Hong Kong Baptist University), "The Beginning of the Hong
Kong New Wave: The Interactive Relationship Between Television and the Film
Industry"
Michael Curtin (Indiana University-Bloomington), "Industry on Fire: The
Cultural Economy of Hong Kong Media"
Amelie Hastie (University of California-Santa Cruz), "Fashion, Femininity,
and Historical Design: The Visual Texture of Three Hong Kong Films"
Anne T. Ciecko and Sheldon H. Lu (University of Pittsburgh), "The Heroic
Trio: Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh--Self-Reflexivity and the
Globalization of the Hong Kong Action Heroine"
Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong (CUNY-Staten Island), "Cities, Cultures and Cassettes:
Hong Kong Cinema and Transnational Audiences"
Hector Rodriguez (City University of Hong Kong), "Organizational Hegemony
in the Hong Kong Cinema"
Yeh Yueh Yu (Hong Kong Baptist University), "A Life of Its Own: Musical
Discourses in Wong Kar-Wai's Films"
Single copies in the U.S. are US$12.50, with $5.00 additional for mailing
outside the U.S. Bulk orders will reduce the price to $10.00 per copy in
the U.S.; the same price applies outside the U.S., plus additional shipping
charges.
Institutional rates are higher.
Information on the journal and the special issue can be accessed from the
following address:
http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/coas/litlang/PostScript.html
Inquiries regarding orders may be directed to:
Gerald Duchovnay
Head and Professor
General Editor, Post Script
Dept. of Literature and Languages
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, Texas 75429-3011
USA
Telephone: (903) 886-5260
Fax: (903) 886-5980
email: [log in to unmask]
Inquiries concerning editorial content may be directed to:
Steve Fore
School of Creative Media
City University of Hong Kong
83 Tat Chee Avenue
Kowloon Tong, Kowloon
Hong Kong
Telephone: (852) 2788 8156
email: [log in to unmask]
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Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite
http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite
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