Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan

ISBN-13: 9781474428453 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 208 str.

Brian Hu

Opis

With case studies of popular stars like Linda Lin Dai and Edison Chen, and spectacular genres like the Shaolin Temple cycle of martial arts films, the book explores what it meant to be both cosmopolitan and Chinese in the second half of the 20th century.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Melodramas of Arrival and Departure: jet-set students in 1970s Taiwanese romance; Chapter 2: ABCs, Mixed-race Stars, and other Monsters of Globalization; Chapter 3: Setting the Stage: Hong Kong musical stars take on the world; Chapter 4: All the Right Moves: mobile heroes and the Shaolin Temple film; Chapter 5: The Cosmopolitan Brand: film policy as cultural work in the international film market; Chapter 6: Conclusion