Masculinities And Hong Kong Cinema

by Laikwan Pang (Editor), Day Wong (Editor)

This book has two first, to investigate the multiple meanings and manifestations of masculinities in Hong Kong cinema that compliment and contradict each other. Second, to analyze the social and cultural environments that make these representations possible and problematic.

342 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

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).

(copied from the blurb at the back of Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema)