Arresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film

by Karen Fang

Book Overview

When Ridley Scott envisioned Blade Runner's set as "Hong Kong on a bad day," he nodded to the city's overcrowding as well as its widespread use of surveillance. But while Scott brought Hong Kong and surveillance into the global film repertoire, the city's own cinema has remained outside of the global surveillance discussion.

In Arresting Cinema, Karen Fang delivers a unifying account of Hong Kong cinema that draws upon its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804798915
• ISBN13: 9780804798914
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"