Hong Kong Chinese filmmaker John Woo has been “misread” and his work “misappropriated” by exoteric factors in the methodology of Western film studies. His films, specifically his gangster genre films, have been labeled by Western film critics as “homoerotic”. This is not a derision of Woo’s crime thrillers, per se, in so far as none of these critics have used “homoeroticism” in a negative fashion, that homoeroticism in film is a bad thing, but Koven does believe that to read Woo’s gangster films as homoerotic misses the cultural producers’ point. Woo’s films certainly deal with male-male relationships, but to see these relationships in terms of erotic desire “misreads” the Hong Kong Chinese understanding of the codes of masculine behaviour....
Session O8: Sinophone CinemasThe Sinophone perspective has become even more important for Hong Kong ...
Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world’s most popular cultural genre...
In Celebration of 70 years of Asian StudiesChina and Inner Asia Session 164: Gendering Social Change...
Hong Kong has the world’s third largest film industry after Hollywood and Bollywood. For...
The most recent addition to the New Hong Kong Cinema Series published by Hong Kong University Press ...
The term “bromance,” a close relationship between two or more men, is a popular, global media narrat...
This thesis is an annotated bibliography that lays a critical foundation for examining the performan...
THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD THE subject of homosexuality is taboo in Chinese films. Ever since Chinese ci...
Hong Kong cinema is known throughout the world for its action cinema, including martial arts films a...
Cet article fait le point sur le cinéma contemporain de Hongkong en se penchant plus particulièremen...
The eunuch characters, representing a classic type of villain, usually feature strongly in Chinese a...
REVERTING TOSOCIAL ORDER BY CONTAINMENT: JOHNNIE TO KEI-FUNG'S WHERE A GOOD MAN GOES The 1999 Hong K...
This thesis intends to explore issues relating to the representation of women in the transnational C...
Deposited with permission of the author. © 2006 Alvin Kok-yong Koh.This thesis examines transnation...
Starting with Bruce Lee in the 1960s, Chinese martial arts films have been gaining increasing import...
Session O8: Sinophone CinemasThe Sinophone perspective has become even more important for Hong Kong ...
Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world’s most popular cultural genre...
In Celebration of 70 years of Asian StudiesChina and Inner Asia Session 164: Gendering Social Change...
Hong Kong has the world’s third largest film industry after Hollywood and Bollywood. For...
The most recent addition to the New Hong Kong Cinema Series published by Hong Kong University Press ...
The term “bromance,” a close relationship between two or more men, is a popular, global media narrat...
This thesis is an annotated bibliography that lays a critical foundation for examining the performan...
THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD THE subject of homosexuality is taboo in Chinese films. Ever since Chinese ci...
Hong Kong cinema is known throughout the world for its action cinema, including martial arts films a...
Cet article fait le point sur le cinéma contemporain de Hongkong en se penchant plus particulièremen...
The eunuch characters, representing a classic type of villain, usually feature strongly in Chinese a...
REVERTING TOSOCIAL ORDER BY CONTAINMENT: JOHNNIE TO KEI-FUNG'S WHERE A GOOD MAN GOES The 1999 Hong K...
This thesis intends to explore issues relating to the representation of women in the transnational C...
Deposited with permission of the author. © 2006 Alvin Kok-yong Koh.This thesis examines transnation...
Starting with Bruce Lee in the 1960s, Chinese martial arts films have been gaining increasing import...
Session O8: Sinophone CinemasThe Sinophone perspective has become even more important for Hong Kong ...
Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world’s most popular cultural genre...
In Celebration of 70 years of Asian StudiesChina and Inner Asia Session 164: Gendering Social Change...