When Ridley Scott envisioned Blade Runner's set as -Hong Kong on a bad day, - he nodded to the city's overcrowding as well as its widespread use of surveillance. But while Scott brought Hong Kong and surveillance into the global film repertoire, the city's own cinema has remained outside of the global surveillance discussion. In Arresting Cinema, Karen Fang delivers a unifying account of Hong Kong cinema that draws upon its renowned crime films and other unique genres to demonstrate Hong Kong's view of surveillance. She argues that Hong Kong's films display a tolerance of--and...
When Ridley Scott envisioned Blade Runner's set as -Hong Kong on a bad day, - he nodded to the city's overcrowding as well as its widespread us...
When Ridley Scott envisioned Blade Runner's set as -Hong Kong on a bad day, - he nodded to the city's overcrowding as well as its widespread use of surveillance. But while Scott brought Hong Kong and surveillance into the global film repertoire, the city's own cinema has remained outside of the global surveillance discussion. In Arresting Cinema, Karen Fang delivers a unifying account of Hong Kong cinema that draws upon its renowned crime films and other unique genres to demonstrate Hong Kong's view of surveillance. She argues that Hong Kong's films display a tolerance of-and...
When Ridley Scott envisioned Blade Runner's set as -Hong Kong on a bad day, - he nodded to the city's overcrowding as well as its widespread us...
Critical theory and popular wisdom are rife with images of surveillance as an intrusive, repressive practice often suggestively attributed to eastern powers and opposed to western liberalism. Hollywood-dominated global media has long promulgated a geopoliticized east-west axis of freedom vs. control. This book focuses on Asian and Asia-based films and cinematic traditions obscured by lopsided western hegemonic discourse and more specifically probes these films treatments of a phenomenon that western film often portrays with neo-orientalist hysteria. Exploring recent and historical movies...
Critical theory and popular wisdom are rife with images of surveillance as an intrusive, repressive practice often suggestively attributed to easte...
