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Author Chan, Kenneth.

Title Remade in Hollywood [electronic resource] : the global Chinese presence in transnational cinemas / Kenneth Chan.

Imprint Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], 2009.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description ix, 259 p. : ill. (some col.).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-244) and index.
Contents Introduction : remaking Chinese cinemas, Hollywood style -- Visualizing Hong Kong : Hollywood's 1997 response to the Hong Kong handover -- The global return of the Wuxia pian (Chinese sword-fighting movie) -- Enter the triads : American cinema's new racialized criminal other -- Hollywood's Sino-chic : Kung fu parody, mimicry, and play in cross-cultural citationality -- Chinese supernaturalism : mythic ethnography and the mystical other -- Coda : global cinematic technologies of ethnic (un)representation.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Motion pictures, Chinese.
Hong Kong (China) -- In motion pictures.
China -- In motion pictures.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9622090559 (hbk.)
9789622090552 (hbk.)
9622090567 (pbk.)
9789622090569 (pbk.)
9789888052738 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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