Vicissitudes of violence: Hong Kong martial arts cinema and the 1966/7 unrest
Conference paper
White, L. 2012. Vicissitudes of violence: Hong Kong martial arts cinema and the 1966/7 unrest. Genre Beyond Hollywood. University of Southampton 08 Jul 2012
Type | Conference paper |
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Title | Vicissitudes of violence: Hong Kong martial arts cinema and the 1966/7 unrest |
Authors | White, L. |
Abstract | Generic popular culture has often been understood to involve a contract, compromise or code shared between cinematic producers and their audience and as articulating, in Andrew Tudor's phrase, 'a shared moral and social world', however conflictual the basis of such a world may be. Such worlds and the generic structures which articulate them are, of course, in constant flux. |
Keywords | Hong Kong cinema, kung fu, martial arts, violence in film, riots, postcolonial, decolonisation, decolonization, Frantz Fanon, Maoism, 1968, Chang Cheh, Bruce Lee, Chor Yuen, political violence. |
Research Group | Diasporas |
Visual Culture and Curating cluster | |
Conference | Genre Beyond Hollywood |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 22 Jan 2013 |
Output status | Published |
Web address (URL) | http://www.southampton.ac.uk/humanities/news/events/2012/07/08_genre_beyond_hollywood.page |
Language | English |
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