Global connections and screen innovations converge in Hong Kong cinema. This volume focuses on film clubs of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, as well as new waves since that have both refreshed and ruptured Hong Kong screenscapes. Energized by transnational image and human flows from China and Asia, Hong Kong's commercial filmmakers and independent pioneers have actively challenged established genres and narrative conventions to create a cultural space independent of Hollywood. The circulation of HK films through art house and film festival circuits, as well as independent DVDs, galleries, and internet sites, reveals many differences within global cultural distributions, as well as distinctive tensions between experimental media artists and traditional screen architects, social participation, censorship, and flexible citizenship. This book will appeal especially to scholars and students of film, gender and cultural studies.Esther M. K. Cheung is chair of Comparative Literature and director of...