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OverviewThis book examines how Fruit Chan's Durian Durian sensitively portrays the unsettling seismic shifts affecting the inhabitants of both China and Hong Kong in a post-1997 context. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Wendy GanPublisher: Hong Kong University Press Imprint: Hong Kong University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.30cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 19.10cm Weight: 0.192kg ISBN: 9789622097438ISBN 10: 962209743 Pages: 124 Publication Date: 01 May 2005 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Language: English Table of ContentsSeries Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Contexts: Independent Filmmaking and Hong Kong Cinema; 3. Contexts: Social Realism in Hong Kong Cinema; 4. The Representation of the Mainland Chinese Womn Durian Durian; 5. Durian Adrift: The Contiguities of Identy in Durian Durian; 6. The Prostitut Trilogy So Far; 7. Conclusion; Notes; Filmography; Bibliography; Filmography; Notes.ReviewsThis is a meticulous study that takes the film as a center point from which to examine the evolving relationship between the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong. Gan's close filmic and narrative reading will delight movie buffs. Through expertly unfolding a c The author does a superb job of placing the film within the context of Fruit Chan's oeuvre, within the history of Hong Kong art cinema, and specifically within the history of Hong Kong films dealing with the PRC and mainland characters. -- Gina Marchetti Author Information"Wendy Gan is an Assistant Professor in the English department of the University of Hong Kong where she divides her research time between her avid interest in Hong Kong film and British womeni's writing. This is a meticulous study that takes the film as a center point from which to examine the evolving relationship between the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong. Gani's close filmic and narrative reading will delight movie buffs. Through expertly unfolding a complex historical and political context, Gan links the film to other imaginative experiments in cinema that focus on Chinese identity, border-crossing, and gender under the ever-changing conditions of globalism."" V Wendy Larson, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon. The author does a superb job of placing the film within the context of Fruit Chani's oeuvre, within the history of Hong Kong art cinema, and specifically within the history of Hong Kong films dealing with the PRC and mainland characters."" V Gina Marchetti, Department of Comparative Literature, the University of Hong Kong and Department of Cinema and Photography, Ithaca College" Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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