Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong (Sexuality Studies) - Softcover
Undercurrents engages the critical rubric of “queer” to examine Hong Kong’s screen and media culture during the transitional and immediate postcolonial period. Helen Hok-Sze Leung draws on theoretical insights from a range of disciplines to reveal parallels between the crisis and uncertainty of the territory’s postcolonial transition and the queer aspects of its cultural productions. She explores Hong Kong cultural productions – cinema, fiction, popular music, and subcultural projects – and argues that while there is no overt consolidation of gay and lesbian identities in Hong Kong culture, undercurrents of diverse and complex expressions of gender and sexual variance are widely in evidence. Undercurrents uncovers a queer media culture that has been largely overlooked by critics in the West and demonstrates the cultural vitality of Hong Kong amidst political transition.
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There is nothing quite like Undercurrents currently available in the English language. Its archive -- Hong Kong cultural productions including contemporary cinema, architecture, urban space, modern literature, icons from popular culture, and community-driven radio programming -- is impressively wide-ranging and diverse. Its theoretical apparatus -- bringing together queer theory and postcolonial studies -- is equally remarkable. This is a beautifully conceived, crafted, and compelling book. Author: David Eng, author of Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America
This lucid and original book is the first dealing with queer cinema and queer culture in Hong Kong. By eschewing the conventional -- and foreign -- ideas of gay and lesbian identity for a more protean range of possibilities under the rubric of "queer," Helen Hok-Sze Leung shows that Hong Kong's screen culture includes a much richer and deeper queer vein than many observers have supposed.
Author: Chris Berry, co-author of China on Screen: Cinema and Nation
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This lucid and original book is the first dealing with queer cinema and queer culture in Hong Kong. By eschewing the conventional -- and foreign -- ideas of gay and lesbian identity for a more protean range of possibilities under the rubric of "queer," Helen Hok-Sze Leung shows that Hong Kong's screen culture includes a much richer and deeper queer vein than many observers have supposed.
Author: Chris Berry, co-author of China on Screen: Cinema and Nation
Helen Hok-Sze Leung is an assistant professor in women's studies at Simon Fraser University.
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- PublisherUBC Press
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0774814705
- ISBN 13 9780774814706
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages390
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Undercurrents engages the critical rubric of queer to examine Hong Kongs screen and media culture during the transitional and immediate postcolonial period. Helen Hok-Sze Leung draws on theoretical insights from a range of disciplines to reveal parallels between the crisis and uncertainty of the territorys postcolonial transition and the queer aspects of its cultural productions.Leung explores Hong Kong cultural productions cinema, fiction, popular music and subcultural projects and argues that while there is no overt consolidation of gay and lesbian identities in Hong Kong culture, undercurrents of diverse and complex expressions of gender and sexual variance are widely in evidence.Undercurrents uncovers a queer media culture that has been largely overlooked by critics in the West, and demonstrates the cultural vitality of Hong Kong amidst political transition. It will appeal to scholars and general readers interested in Asian studies, film and cultural studies, and sexuality and gender studies. Undercurrents engages the critical rubric of queer to examine Hong Kongs screen, uncovering a queer media culture that has been largely overlooked by critics in the West, and demonstrates the cultural vitality of Hong Kong amidst political transition. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780774814706
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