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Wuxia-Made Hong Kong a Socio-Political History of Martial Arts Cinema from 1949-1976.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Wuxia-Made Hong Kong a Socio-Political History of Martial Arts Cinema from 1949-1976./
Author:	Tsang, Kin Tak Raymond.
Description:	1 online resource (382 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-02A.
Subject:	Film studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29061558click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798837545511

Wuxia-Made Hong Kong a Socio-Political History of Martial Arts Cinema from 1949-1976.
Tsang, Kin Tak Raymond.

Wuxia-Made Hong Kong a Socio-Political History of Martial Arts Cinema from 1949-1976. - 1 online resource (382 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation attempts to rewrite the history of Hong Kong martial arts cinema with a political lens. I take this genre as a discourse of security for martial arts filmmakers to mediate geo-political and cultural histories connecting to the Cold War in East Asia, colonial power, and popular texts. Martial arts films, or wuxia films, produced by directors and companies, who were often conservative or bourgeois liberals, implicated their political desires in relation to nationalism, authoritarianism, elitism, individualism, and Cold War tropes like the fear of nuclear holocaust and Communist infiltration. My research question is why and how there were so many martial arts films churned out in colonial Hong Kong between the 1950s and 1970s. In this examination of the complex political nature of martial arts cinema under the British rule of Hong Kong during the early Cold War, I interrogate the wuxia genre beyond the formal styles, nationalist and modernity frameworks. I interweave political ideologies, intellectual trends, social movements, martial art schools, politics of adaptations, and myths of triad society to demonstrate how the wuxia genre became politically reactionary rather than radical. Dismissing class struggles, radical nationalism and social revolution, promoting ethnonationalism, authoritarianism and elitism and imbricated in the existing conservative tradition and the current Cold War hegemony, wuxia films produced their own myriad ideological messages. The genre and its rise not only constitute the dominant ideology of Hong Kong, but struck a chord with the defeat of Communist movements and counter-culture movements in overseas markets like Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798837545511Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122736
Film studies.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Chinese CinemaIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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