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Ann Hui's Song of the exile [electronic resource] / Audrey Yue.

By: Yue, AudreyMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: New Hong Kong cinemaPublication details: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2010Description: 1 online resource (xii, 148 p.) : illISBN: 9789882206113 (electronic bk.); 9882206115 (electronic bk.)Other title: Song of the exileSubject(s): Ke tu qiu hen (Motion picture) | Xu, Anhua | Culture conflict in motion pictures | Social Science | PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & CriticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ann Hui's Song of the exile.DDC classification: 791.4372 LOC classification: PN1997.K415 | Y84 2010ebOnline resources: EBSCOhost

Contents:

Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 -- The Diasporas of Hong Kong; 2 -- Re-turn to Hong Kong: Authorship, Memory, Intimate Biography; 3 -- Teaching Song of the Exile in the Diaspora: Minor Cinema, Transcultural Literacy and Border Pedagogy; Notes; Awards and Nominations; Ann Hui's Filmography; Bibliography.

Summary: In this work, Audrey Yue analyses a 1990 film considered by many to be one of Ann Hui's most haunting and poignant works, 'Song of the Exile'. Yue examines how Hui challenges the myth of the original home as singular, familial and romantic, and constructs the second home as a new space for Hong Kong modernity.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-148).

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In this work, Audrey Yue analyses a 1990 film considered by many to be one of Ann Hui's most haunting and poignant works, 'Song of the Exile'. Yue examines how Hui challenges the myth of the original home as singular, familial and romantic, and constructs the second home as a new space for Hong Kong modernity.

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