Acknowledgments x Notes on Contributors xi Foreword xviii Ackbar Abbas Introduction 1 Esther M.K. Cheung, Gina Marchetti, and Esther C.M. Yau Part I Critical Paradigms: Defining Hong Kong Cinema Studies 15 1 Watchful Partners, Hidden Currents: Hong Kong Cinema Moving into the Mainland of China 17 Esther C.M. Yau 2 The Urban Maze: Crisis and Topography in Hong Kong Cinema 51 Esther M.K.
Cheung 3 Hong Kong Cinema as Ethnic Borderland 71 KwaiÂ]cheung Lo 4 Hong Kong Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalization and Mainlandization: Hong Kong SAR New Wave as a Cinema of Anxiety 89 Mirana May Szeto and YunÂ]chung Chen Commentary: Dimensions of Hong Kong Cinema 116 Sheldon Lu Part II Critical Geographies 121 5 Hong Kong Cinema''s Exotic Others: ReÂ]examining the Hong Kong Body in the Context of Asian Regionalism 123 Olivia Khoo 6 Animating the Translocal: The McDull Films as a Cultural and Visual Expression of Hong Kong 140 Kimburley Wing-yee Choi and Steve Fore 7 Globalizing Hong Kong Cinema Through Japan 168 David Desser 8 Creative Cinematic Geographies Through the Hong Kong International Film Festival 185 Cindy HingÂ]yuk Wong 9 Postmodernity, Han Normativity, and Hong Kong Cinema 207 Evans Chan Commentary: Critical Geographies 225 Stephen YiuÂ]wai Chu Part III The Gendered Body and Queer Configurations 235 10 Feminism, Postfeminism, and Hong Kong Women Filmmakers 237 Gina Marchetti 11 Love In The City: The Placing of Intimacy in Urban Romance Films 265 Helen HokÂ]sze Leung 12 Regulating Queer Domesticity in the Neoliberal Diaspora 284 Audrey Yue Commentary: To Love is to Demand: A Very Short Commentary 303 ShuÂ]mei Shih Part IV Hong Kong Stars 305 13 Return of the Dragon: Handover, Hong Kong Cinema, and Chinese EthnoÂ]nationalism 307 Paul Bowman 14 Transitional Stardom: The Case of Jimmy Wang Yu 322 Tony Williams 15 Camp Stars of Androgyny: A Study of Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui''s Body Images of Desire 341 Natalia SiuÂ]hung Chan 16 Cooling Faye Wong: A Cosmopolitical Intervention 359 KinÂ]Yan Szeto Commentary: Hong Kong Stars and Stardom 379 Gary Bettinson Part V Narratives and Aesthetics 389 17 Making Merry on Time: A Feast of Nostalgia in Watching Chinese New Year Films 391 Fiona YukÂ]wa Law 18 A PanÂ]Asian Cinema of Allusion: Going Home and Dumplings 410 Bliss Cua Lim 19 Double Agents, Cameos, and the Poor Man''s Orchestra: Music and Place in Chungking Express 440 Giorgio Biancorosso 20 Documenting Sentiments in Video Diaries around 1997: Archeology of Forgotten Screen Practices 462 Linda ChiuÂ]han Lai Commentary: The Dynamics of OffÂ]Centeredness in Hong Kong Cinema 489 Yingjin Zhang Part VI Screen Histories and Documentary Practices 499 21 The Lightness of History: Screening the Past in Hong Kong Cinema 501 Vivian P.Y. Lee 22 The Tales of Fang Peilin and Zhu Shilin: From Rethinking Hong Kong Cinema to Rewriting Chinese Film History 523 AinÂ]ling Wong 23 The Documentary Film in Hong Kong 539 Ian Aitken and Mike Ingham 24 Representations of Law in Hong Kong Cinema 560 Marco Wan Commentary: Cinema and the Cultural Politics of Identity: Hong Kong No More? A Commentary on the Verge of Postcolonial Locality 577 Stephen ChingÂ]kiu Chan Filmography 585 Index 602.