Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema

✍ Scribed by Laikwan Pang

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 357
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book has two objectives: first, to investigate the multiple meanings and manifestations of masculinities in Hong Kong cinema that compliment and contradict each other. Second, to analyze the social and cultural environments that make these representations possible and problematic.

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