CULS30002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hong Kong Action Cinema, Hong Kong Cantonese, Cheng Pei-Pei
17 Apr 2017
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Chinese marital genre (wuxia pian) as vehicle for thinking about different types of transnationalism. Nature of culture how it has changed in recent decades, under auspices of increasingly globalised economy and culture. Eample of ang lee"s crouching tiger, hidden dragon (2000) Conceptions of asian cinema changed over different periods. Brutality of japanese occupation & earlier western colonialism move away from pan- Recent decades, emergence of more regionalised/ globalised culture. Transnational social, economic and political phenomenon that exceeds the national. Contested term used in different way and in different contexts. Chris berry emerged from specific social, economic and political order. Different order of cinematic order and culture from old national order, collapse of socialism & post-fordist production. Emerged in wake of cold war and truly globalised economic order, characterised by post-fordist modes of production. Box office hit in many countries around the globe, especially in us. Cots around usd15 17 million to make.
