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Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together [electronic resource] / Jeremy Tambling.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New Hong Kong cinema | Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, c2003 2012) 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 electronic text (xii, 122 p., [4] p. of plates) :) col. ill., digital fileContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789888053353
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 791.4372 21
LOC classification:
  • PN1997.C46658 T368 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

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.

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