"It is a must-read for students, scholars and academics in the field of film and cultural studies. On account of its interdisciplinary appeal, the book will also be useful to students and scholars in other disciplines such as sociology and China studies, apart from being of interest to general readers and film lovers." (Romi Jain, Hong Kong Studies, Vol. 2 (2), 2019)
1 Situating Hong Kong and Bollywood Cinemas in the Global Satish Kolluri and Joseph Tse-Hei Lee
Part I The Politics of Representation and Representation of Politics
2 The Trajectory of Bollywood Lyrics Ali Mir and Raza Mir
3 Transformation of Hong Kong Gangster Films before and after CEPA Kinnia Shuk-Ting Yau
4 Despair and Hope: Political Cinema in Hong Kong Joseph Tse-Hei Lee
5 Chinaman, not Hindustani: Stereotypes and Solidarity in a Hong Kong Film on India S. V. Srinivas
6 1911: Cinematic Contradictions of Greater China Siu-Keung Cheung
Part II: The Crisis of Representation and Representation of Crisis
7 What is so Asian about Asian Parenting? Deconstructing “Tiger Moms” and “Tiger Dads” in Neoliberal Times through Taare Zameen Par and I Not Stupid Satish Kolluri
8 Negotiating Cold War and Post/Colonial Politics: Borders and Boundaries in 1950s Hong Kong Cinema Jing Jing Chang
9 Slum Extravaganza! Cultural and Geopolitical Representation of Dharavi in Celluloid India Sony Jalarajan Raj and Rohini Sreekumar
10 Life without Principle: Financial Irregularities in Hong Kong Siu-Keung Cheung
Part III: The Aesthetics of Representation and Representation of Aesthetics
11 Questioning Modernity: Space, Consumption and Loss in Hong Kong New Wave and Bombay Parallel Cinema Surajit Chakravarty
12 Naqal and the Aesthetics of the Copy Anjali Gera Roy
13 Undercranking and Step-printing in Wong Kar-Wai’s Filmography Patrick Sullivan
14 Mirrored Alterity: The Imaginary China and the Comedic Self in Chandi Chowk to China Michael A. Mikita
15 Hong Kong, Film, and the Building of China’s Soft Power: The Cross-Promotion of Chinese Film on Globally-Oriented State Television Lauren Gorfinkel and Xuezhong Su
Joseph Tse-Hei Lee is Professor of History and Executive Director of the Confucius Institute at Pace University, USA.
Satish Kolluri is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Pace University, USA.
This volume examines the transmission, reception, and reproduction of new cinematic styles, meanings, practices, and norms in early twenty-first-century Asia. Hong Kong and Bollywood offers new answers to the field of inter-Asian cultural studies, which has been energized by the trends towards transnationalism and translatability. It brings together a team of international scholars to capture the latest development in the film industries of Hong Kong and Mumbai, and to explore similar cross-cultural, political, and socioeconomic issues. It also explains how Hong Kong and Bollywood filmmakers have gone beyond the traditional focus on nationalism, urbanity and biculturalism to reposition themselves as new cultural forces in the pantheon of global cinema.