Open AccessBurst Into Action: The Changing Spectacle of Glamour Heroines in Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema
Author(s) -
Cheong-Fat Chan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
cultural studies review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1837-8692
pISSN - 1446-8123
DOI - 10.5130/csr.v10i1.3518
Subject(s) - spectacle , glocalization , movie theater , sensibility , transnationality , sociology , context (archaeology) , mediation , action (physics) , articulation (sociology) , media studies , aesthetics , political science , globalization , history , gender studies , art , social science , visual arts , politics , law , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics
My question for now is: in what ways have the new currents of transnationality affected existing forms of cultural sensibility in the ‘post-colony’? Realised as a system of representation of the global popular, recent articulations of popular experience tend to be absorbed into generic cross-cultural media representations shared on the glocal level of operation by cultural producers, consumers and practitioners across geographical borders. In this paper, I shall focus on the changing spectacle of ‘the local’ through its cinematic action (along with its alternative heroine mediation), in light of such a transnational articulation as the emerging dominant. My purpose is to examine how local action has been re-imagined and can be re-aligned in relation to the specifically historical, national and postcolonial mode of imagination under the contemporary glocal context of the Hong Kong ‘Special Administrative Region’ (HKSAR), as this particular post-colony is officially renamed