6. The Hong Kong New Wave

  1. Yingjin Zhang2,3
  1. Gina Marchetti

Published Online: 2 JUL 2012

DOI: 10.1002/9781444355994.ch6

Book Title

A Companion to Chinese Cinema, A

A Companion to Chinese Cinema, A

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How to Cite

Marchetti, G. (2012) The Hong Kong New Wave, in A Companion to Chinese Cinema, A (ed Y. Zhang), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444355994.ch6

Editor Information

  1. 2

    University of California, San Diego, USA

  2. 3

    Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Author Information

  1. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 2 JUL 2012
  2. Published Print: 19 MAR 2012

ISBN Information

Print ISBN: 9781444330298

Online ISBN: 9781444355994

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Keywords:

  • The Hong Kong New Wave, a much-discussed film movement;
  • “new wave” and “new cinema” in world cinema, and father–son melodrama;
  • new generation, newer technologies for new effects in nontraditional ways;
  • Hong Kong New Wave, and Hu, Shu-shuen, Directors, “performing women”;
  • the martial arts genre, the New Wave, and androgyny, queer sensibility;
  • Taiwan cinema and “Taiwan cinema's missing years”;
  • New Wave, and aesthetic innovation, modernist and/or postmodernist;
  • Shu-shuen's The Arch, international “new” cinemas, and A Touch of Zen;
  • the New Wave, with filmmaker/photographer chronicling Hong Kong stories;
  • Hong Kong's New Wave women, changing roles of a younger generation

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Was There anything “New” about the Hong Kong New Wave?3

  • The Portrait of the Filmmaker as a Young (Wo)Man

  • Performing Women

  • The Return of the Sword

  • Queer Connections

  • The Return of the Real

  • The Hong Kong New Wave and the World

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