TY  - DATA
AU  - Bettinson, Gary,
AU  - Martin, Daniel
TI  - Hong Kong horror cinema
SN  - 9781474424608 (ebook)
U1  - 791.43/6164095125 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Horror films
KW  - China
KW  - Hong Kong
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021); Part I: Formations and Fragmentations: The Development of Hong Kong Horror. What Can a Neoi Gwei Teach Us? Adaptation as Reincarnation in Hong Kong Horror of the 1950s / Raymond Tsang -- The White Snake in Hong Kong Horror Cinema: From Horrific Tales to Crowd Pleasers / Liang Luo -- From Killer Snakes to Taxi Hunters: Hong Kong Horror in an Exploitation Context / Andy Willis -- 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. Animated Pasts and Unseen Futures: On the Comic Element in Hong Kong Horror / Andrew Grossman -- Performing (Comic) Abjection in the Hong Kong Ghost Story / Felicia Chan -- Hands, Fingers, and Fists: 'Grasping' Hong Kong Horror Films / David Scott Diffrient -- Tsui Hark's Detective Dee Films: Police Procedural Colludes with Supernatural-Martial Arts Cinema / Kenneth Chan -- Part III: Transnational Trends: Globalisation and Politics in Contemporary Hong Kong Horror. Cross-Border Implications: Transnational Haunting, Gender, and the Persistent Look of The Eye / Enrique Ajuria Ibarra -- Food for Thought: Cannibalism in The Untold Story and Dumplings / Lisa Odham Stokes -- Sympathy for the Slasher: Strategies of Character Engagement in Pang Ho-cheung's Dream Home / Gary Bettinson -- Ghostly Returns: The Politics of Horror in Hong Kong Cinema / Vivian Lee
N2  - Hong Kong Horror Cinema offers new insights into the history of Hong Kong horror through case studies of classic films and through a detailed consideration of their aesthetic power, economic significance, and cultural impact in both the global and domestic market
UR  - https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781474424608/type/BOOK
ER  -