Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema

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Laikwan Pang, Day Wong
Hong Kong University Press, 2005 - Performing Arts - 342 pages
This collection of exciting essays explores how the representations and the ideologies of masculinities can be productively studied in the context of Hong Kong cinema. It has two objectives: first, to investigate the multiple meanings and manifestations o

About the author (2005)

Laikwan Pang teaches cultural studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Building a New Cinema in China: The Chinese Left-wing Cinema Movement, 1932-37 (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004) and Cultural Control and Globalisation in Asia: Copyright, Piracy and Cinema (RoutledgeCurzon, forthcoming). Day Wong is a lecturer in the General Education Centre at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research and teaching areas include gender and sexuality, feminist theories, and Foucault's works. She has written and co-written journal articles and book chapters on violence against women and sexual politics.

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