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Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together

Tambling, Jeremy.

Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together [electronic resource] / Jeremy Tambling. - Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, c2003 - 1 online resource (1 electronic text (xii, 122 p., [4] p. of plates) :) col. ill., digital file. - New Hong Kong cinema . - New Hong Kong cinema. Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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Includes filmography (p. [115]-117) and bibliographical references (p. [119]-122).

1. Introduction : approaching the film -- 2. Happy together and allegory -- 3. Contexts : why Buenos Aires? -- 4. Contexts : the road movie -- 5. Reading the film -- 6. Happy together and homosexuality -- 7. Happy together, Hong Kong and melancholy -- 8. Epilogue : Happy together and In the mood for love -- Notes -- Filmography -- Bibliography.

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This book shows two Chinese gay men in Buenos Aires and reflects on Hong Kong's past and future by probing masculinity, aggression, identity, and homosexuality. It also gives a reading of Latin America, perhaps as an allegory of Hong Kong as another post-colonial society.

9789888053353


Wong, Kar-wai, 1958- --Criticism and interpretation.


Chun gwong cha sit (Motion picture)


Motion pictures--China--Hong Kong.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

PN1997.C46658 / T368 2003

791.4372