> > Esther Yau sends the following announcement of a new Hong Kong cinema book: > > I am pleased to announce the publication of a new book on Hong Kong > cinema for your summer reading. > <AT FULL SPEED: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World>, edited by > Esther C.M. Yau, gathers critical essays written by some of the most > notable writers on the subject. "Their work, the most incisive > account ever given of one of the world's largest film industries, > brings the pleasures and idiosyncrasies of Hong Kong cinema into > clear focus even as it looks at the relationships between art and the > market, cultural theory, and the movies."---University of Minnesota > Press. > > Contents > > Introduction: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World > Esther C.M. Yau > > Part I. Hong Kong New Wave Cinema > > An Overview of Hong Kong's New Wave Cinema > Law Kar > > The Emergence of the Hong Kong New Wave > Hector Rodriquez > > Part II. In Action: Entertainment, Aesthetics, and Reinventions > > Aesthetics in Action: Kung Fu, Gunplay, and Cinematic Expressivity > David Bordwell > > The Killer: Cult Film and Transnational (Mi-s)reading > Jinsoo An > > Life Imitates Entertainment: Home and Dislocation > in the films of Jackie Chan > Steve Fore > > Tsui Hark, National Style and Polemic > Stephen Teo > > Hong Kong Hysteria: Martial Arts Tales from a Mutating World > Bhaskar Sarkar > > Women on the Edges of Hong Kong Modernity: > The Films of Ann Hui > Elaine Yee-lin Ho > > Part III. A Culture of Disappearance: Nostalgia, Nonsense and Dislocation > > A Souvenir of Love > Rey Chow > > Film and Enigmatization: Nostalgia, Nonsense, and Remembering > Linda Chiu-han Lai > > Transnational Exchanges, Questions of Culture, and Global Cinema: > Defining the Dynamics of Changing Relationships > Gina Marchetti > > Transnationalization of the Local in Hong Kong Cinema of the 1990s > Kwai-cheung Lo > > The Intimate Spaces of Wong Kar-wai > Mark Siegel > > Glossary [Editor's Note: in English and Chinese] > > Selected Bibliography > Esther C.M. Yau > > Contributors > Index > > ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]