Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-322) and index
Introduction: Hong Kong cinema in a borderless world / Esther C.M. Yau -- An overview of Hong Kong's new wave cinema / Law Kar -- The emergence of the Hong Kong new wave / Hector Rodriguez -- Aesthetics in action: kungfu, gunplay, and cinematic expressivity / David Bordwell -- The killer: cult film and transcultural (mis)reading / Jinsoo An -- Life imitates entertainment: home and dislocation in the films of Jackie Chan / Steve Fore -- Tsui Hark: national style and polemic / Stephen Teo -- Hong Kong hysteria: martial arts tales from a mutating world / Bhaskar Sarkar -- Women on the edges of Hong Kong modernity: the films of Ann Hui / Elaine Yee-lin Ho -- A souvenir of love / Rey Chow -- Film and enigmatization: nostalgia, nonsense, and remembering / Linda Chiu-han Lai -- Transnational exchanges, questions of culture, and global cinema: defining the dynamics of changing relationships / Gina Marchetti -- Transnationalization of the local in Hong Kong cinema of the 1990s / Kwai-cheung Lo -- The intimate spaces of Wong Kar-wai / Marc Siegel