Planet Hong Kong
Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment
David Bordwell
Preface
1. All Too Extravagant, Too Gratuitously Wild
Hong Kong and/as/or Hollywood
2. Local Heroes
Two Dragons: Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan
3. The Chinese Connections
4. Once upon a Time in the West
Enough to Make Strong Men Weep: John Woo
5. Made in Hong Kong
A Chinese Feast: Tsui Hark
6. Formula, Form, and Norm
Whatever You Want: Wong Jing
7. Plots, Slack and Stretched
8. Motion Emotion: The Art of the Action Movie
Three Martial Masters: Zhang Che, Lau Kar-Leung, King Hu
9. Avant-Pop Cinema
Romance On Your Menu: Chungking Express
Further Reading
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

