{"product_id":"arresting-cinema-surveillance-in-hong-kong-film-paperback-softback-9781503600706","title":"Arresting Cinema; Surveillance in Hong Kong Film (Paperback \/ softback) 9781503600706","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eArresting Cinema\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSurveillance in Hong Kong Film\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKaren Fang (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503600706\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 January 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 60 halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Hong Kong films love to look: through windows, across courtyards, over ledges, down gun barrels, into mirrors, and around corners. I always knew that, but never gave it much thought until I read Karen Fang's innovative, refreshing, and yes, Arresting Cinema. Fang's analysis offers an essential complement to Western scholarship on cinema and surveillance.\"—Michael Curtin, University of California, Santa Barbara \"An incisive, insightful consideration of a regional cinema that inspires thinking on a much larger scale. Karen Fang's study of surveillance culture in Hong Kong films offers not only a refreshing perspective on world cinema but also, in tracking how Hong Kong is coming to terms with dramatic changes, a challenge to view the globalized world through a new lens.\"—Sam Ho, Former Programmer, Hong Kong Film Archive \"Karen Fang's \u003ci\u003eArresting Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e breaks new ground in the contemporary surveillance era and makes available to a wider audience a film genre that is relevant well beyond its area focus. As a result, it will be an edifying resource both for area specialists and practitioners and students in diverse disciplines. Conceptually sophisticated yet accessibly written, the book is both timely and of enduring value.\"—Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i at Manoa \"Professor Karen Fang tackles the history of this aspect of the metropolis in her new book, \u003ci\u003eArresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film\u003c\/i\u003e. She shows that Hong Kong has for decades been a metropolis where the movements of people have been tracked by watchful eyes, and she zooms in on how the movie industry has documented the progression of surveillance techniques from the days of black and white film to the present...in short, [this book] has much to offer both to those, like me, always fascinated by the city that is its focus and those who may not realize before reading it just how significant the place has been and remains.\"—Susan Blumberg-Kason, \u003ci\u003eThe China Blog\u003c\/i\u003e \"Karen Fang's \u003ci\u003eArresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome contribution to the ever-growing discussion of surveillance culture, particularly as reflected in narrative cinema...\u003ci\u003eArresting Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e makes a convincing case that discussions of surveillance and cinema would benefit from analyses more grounded in specific historical-cultural contexts of surveillance and of film production. In doing so, it provides a historiographical summary of films that will be of great value in the study of surveillance and surveillance cinema, as well as a useful framework for discussions of Hong Kong film.\"—Catherine Zimmer, \u003ci\u003e Film Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e \"[T]he author has deftly reconceptualized the cinema through various lens of surveillance. Based on an array of interdisciplinary references from film criticisms to local history as seen in the bibliography, her methodology is both diegetic and extradiegetic, analyzing not only contents of narrative and image but also context of production and reception as well\"—Howard Y.F. Choy, \u003ci\u003eChina Review International\u003c\/i\u003e \"Karen Fang's \u003ci\u003eArresting Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e provides a long overdue theoretical intervention in Surveillance Studies by 'provincializing' the existing Western bias in studies of surveillance cinema\"—Anita Lam, \u003ci\u003eSurveillance and Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Ridley Scott envisioned \u003ci\u003eBlade Runner\u003c\/i\u003e's set as \"Hong Kong on a bad day,\" he nodded to the city's overcrowding as well as its widespread use of surveillance. But while Scott brought Hong Kong and surveillance into the global film repertoire, the city's own cinema has remained outside of the global surveillance discussion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eArresting Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e, Karen Fang delivers a unifying account of Hong Kong cinema that draws upon its renowned crime films and other unique genres to demonstrate Hong Kong's view of surveillance. She argues that Hong Kong's films display a tolerance of—and even opportunism towards—the soft cage of constant observation, unlike the fearful view prevalent in the West. However, many surveillance cinema studies focus solely on European and Hollywood films, discounting other artistic traditions and industrial circumstances. Hong Kong's films show a more crowded, increasingly economically stratified, and postnational world that nevertheless offers an aura of hopeful futurity. Only by exploring Hong Kong surveillance film can we begin to shape a truly global understanding of Hitchcock's \"rear window ethics.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: A Race of Peeping Toms? \"\u003cbr\u003eRear Window Ethics\"\u003cbr\u003e in Hong Kong\u003cbr\u003e  1. Watching the Watchman: Michael Hui's Surveillance Comedies\u003cbr\u003e  2. On the \"\u003cbr\u003eChina Watch\"\u003cbr\u003e: Prosperity and Paranoia in Reunification-Era Cinema\u003cbr\u003e  3. \"\u003cbr\u003eOnly\"\u003cbr\u003e a Policeman: Joint Venture Cinema and the Mediatization of the\u003cbr\u003e  4. \"\u003cbr\u003eRepresenting the Chinese Government\"\u003cbr\u003e: Hong Kong Undercover in An Age of Self-Censorship\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: Toward a Global Surveillance Cinema\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681690644760,"sku":"9781503600706","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/arresting-cinema-surveillance-in-hong-kong-film-paperback-softback-9781503600706","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}