Fwd: Post Script: Special issue on Hong Kong cinema

[Ono Seiko and Aaron Gerow]

It's not Japanese film, but some KineJapan readers may still be 
interested:

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From: Steve Fore <SMFORE at cityu.edu.hk>

The editors of the media studies journal Post Script are pleased to
announce the Fall 1999 publication of a special issue (Vol. 19, No. 1)
devoted to Hong Kong cinema.  The issue contains essays on topics of both
historical and contemporary relevance, and includes considerations of
current production, distribution, and marketing trends within the SAR 
movie
industry, discussions of the multiple global audiences for Hong Kong
movies, analyses of thematic and stylistic issues raised by recent films
and filmmakers, and historiographical critiques of significant artistic,
social, and political trends.

Guest Editor: Steve Fore, School of Creative Media, City University of 
Hong
Kong
Post Script General Editor: Gerald Duchovnay, Department of Literature and
Languages, Texas A&M University-Commerce

Table of Contents:

Steve Fore, "Introduction: Hong Kong Movies, Critical Time Warps, and
Shapes of Things to Come"

Cheuk Pak-Tong (Hong Kong Baptist University), "The Beginning of the Hong
Kong New Wave: The Interactive Relationship Between Television and the 
Film
Industry"

Michael Curtin (Indiana University-Bloomington), "Industry on Fire: The
Cultural Economy of Hong Kong Media"

Amelie Hastie (University of California-Santa Cruz), "Fashion, Femininity,
and Historical Design: The Visual Texture of Three Hong Kong Films"

Anne T. Ciecko and Sheldon H. Lu (University of Pittsburgh), "The Heroic
Trio: Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh--Self-Reflexivity and the
Globalization of the Hong Kong Action Heroine"

Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong (CUNY-Staten Island), "Cities, Cultures and Cassettes:
Hong Kong Cinema and Transnational Audiences"

Hector Rodriguez (City University of Hong Kong), "Organizational Hegemony
in the Hong Kong Cinema"

Yeh Yueh Yu (Hong Kong Baptist University), "A Life of Its Own: Musical
Discourses in Wong Kar-Wai's Films"

Inquiries concerning bulk orders of the issue for classroom use, 
individual
copies, and Post Script subscriptions should be directed to:

Gerald Duchovnay, Head and Professor
Dept. of Literature and Languages
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, Texas 75429 USA
(903) 886-5260 FAX 903 886-5980
email: Gerald_Duchovnay at tamu-commerce.edu

Inquiries concerning editorial content may be directed to:

Steve Fore
School of Creative Media
City University of Hong Kong
83 Tat Chee Avenue
Kowloon Tong, Kowloon
Hong Kong
(852) 2788 8156
email: smfore at cityu.edu.hk


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