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020			_a9781474424608 (ebook)
020			_z9781474424592 (hardback)
082			_a791.43/6164095125 _223
245			_aHong Kong horror cinema / _cedited by Gary Bettinson and Daniel Martin.
260			_aEdinburgh : _bEdinburgh University Press, _c2018.
300			_a1 online resource (x, 227 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021).
505			_aPart 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.
520			_aHong 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.
650			_aHorror films _zChina _zHong Kong _xHistory and criticism. _919276
700			_aBettinson, Gary, _eeditor. _919277
700			_aMartin, Daniel _c(Professor of Film Studies), _eeditor. _919278
856			_uhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781474424608/type/BOOK
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