Martial Arts Cinema and Hong Kong Modernity: Aesthetics, Representation, Circulation
Man-Fung Yip
Abstract
The martial arts film, despite being long regarded as a vehicle of Chinese cultural nationalism, can also paradoxically be conceptualized as a mass cultural expression of Hong Kong’s colonial-capitalist modernity. Moving beyond generalized notions of martial arts cinema’s appeal, this book argues that the important and popular genre articulates the experiential qualities, the competing social subjectivities and gender discourses, as well as the heightened circulation of capital, people, goods, information, and technologies in Hong Kong of the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to providing an origi ... More
Keywords: martial arts cinema, colonial-capitalist modernity, Hong Kong
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 | Print ISBN-13: 9789888390717 |
| Published to Hong Kong Scholarship Online: September 2017 | DOI:10.5790/hongkong/9789888390717.001.0001 |
