Hong Kong Horror Cinema

ISBN-13: 9781474452229 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 240 str.

Gary Bettinson; Daniel Martin

Spis treści

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; Gary Bettinson & Daniel Martin

Part I: Formations and Fragmentations: The Development of Hong Kong Horror

Chapter 1: What Can a Neoi Gwei Teach Us? Adaptation as Reincarnation in Hong Kong Horror of the 1950s; Raymond Tsang
Chapter 2: The White Snake in Hong Kong Horror Cinema: From Horrific Tales to Crowd Pleasers; Liang Luo
Chapter 3: From Killer Snakes to Taxi Hunters: Hong Kong Horror in an Exploitation Context; Andy Willis
Chapter 4: 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

Chapter 5: Animated Pasts and Unseen Futures: On the Comic Element in Hong Kong Horror; Andrew Grossman
Chapter 6: Performing (Comic) Abjection in the Hong Kong Ghost Story; Felicia Chan
Chapter 7: Hands, Fingers, and Fists: ‘Grasping’ Hong Kong Horror Films; David Scott Diffrient
Chapter 8: Tsui Hark’s Detective Dee Films: Police Procedural Colludes with Supernatural-Martial Arts Cinema; Kenneth Chan

Part III: Transnational Trends: Globalization and Politics in Contemporary Hong Kong Horror

Chapter 9: Cross-Border Implications: Transnational Haunting, Gender, and the Persistent Look of The Eye; Enrique Ajuria Ibarra
Chapter 10: Food for Thought: Cannibalism in The Untold Story and Dumplings; Lisa Odham Stokes
Chapter 11: Sympathy for the Slasher: Strategies of Character Engagement in Pang Ho-cheung’s Dream Home; Gary Bettinson
Chapter 12: Ghostly Returns: The Politics of Horror in Hong Kong Cinema; Vivian Lee