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book		City on fire : Hong Kong cinema / Lisa Odham Stokes and Michael Hoover New York: Verso, 1999. Call No: 71(512.317) STO Author: Stokes, Lisa Odham; Hoover, Michael Place: New York Publisher: Verso PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: p. cm Subject: FOOD IN FILMS; CHAN, JACKIE; CHAN, PETER; CHOW, YUN-FAT; CHIAU, STEPHEN; DOYLE, CHRISTOPHER; HUI, ANN; KWAN, STANLEY; LAM, RINGO; LAW, CLARA; TSUI, HARK; WONG KAR-WAI; TONG, STANLEY [pseud. of Tony Kwei Lai]; WOO, JOHN [pseud. of Wu Yusen]; Yeoh, Michelle; Yu, Ronnie; YINGXIONG BENSE II (HK, John Woo [pseud. of Wu Yusen], 1988); BALLISTIC KISS [SAT SAT YAN, TIU TIU MO / SHA SHA REN TIAO TIAO MIU] (HK, Donnie Yen, 1998); ASHES OF TIME [DUNG CHE SAI DUK] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1994); GAMYUK MUNTONG (HK, Tsui Hark, 1996); CHUNGKING EXPRESS [CHONGQING SENLIN] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1994); CHUNGKING EXPRESS [CHONGQING SENLIN] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1994); TIAN MIMI (HK, Peter Chan, 1997); CHEUN GWONG TSA SIT (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1997); HAPPY TOGETHER [CHUNGUANG ZHAXIE] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1997); LASHOU SHENTAN (HK, John Woo [pseud. of Wu Yusen], 1992); DIEXUE SHUANG XIONG (HK, John Woo [pseud. of Wu Yusen], 1989) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 1859847161 (cloth); 1859842038 (pbk.) LON: 20214722 ID2: 291 More info
journal article		Clara Law's Floating Life and Australian identity in Metro (1997) iss.110 p.3-6 Author: Roxburgh, Mark PhysDes: Article; Bibliography; Illustration(s) Subject: ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS; LAW, CLARA; FLOATING LIFE (AT, Clara Law, 1996) Summary: Essay examines "Floating life" in relation to the discourse of Australian national identity and the Chinese immigrant experience. More info
book		From Tian'anmen Square to Times Square : transnational China and the Chinese diaspora on global screens, 1989-1997 / Gina Marchetti Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press, c2006. Call No: 408.1(51) MAR Author: Marchetti, Gina Place: Philadelphia PA Publisher: Temple University Press PubDate: c2006 PhysDes: xviii, 302 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm Subject: CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA; CENSORSHIP. CHINA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. CHINA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN IN FILMS. CHINA; CHAN, EVANS; CHOW, RAYMOND; HOU HSIAO-HSIEN; JAMESON, FREDRIC; KHOO, ERIC; LAW, CLARA; LEE, BRANDON; LEE, BRUCE; YANG, EDWARD; QIUYUE (HK/JA, Clara Law, 1992); CHUNGKING EXPRESS [CHONGQING SENLIN] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1994); CHUNGKING EXPRESS [CHONGQING SENLIN] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1994); GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE, THE (US, Richard Gordon & Carma Hinton, 1995); [TWELVE] 12 STOREYS (SI, Eric Khoo, 1997); WORLD OF SUZIE WONG, THE (UK, Richard Quine, 1960) ISBN: 18592132782 Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2009 Contents: 1. China and the Chinese on world screens 1989-1997 -- 2. Buying American, consuming Hong Kong: Chungking express, The opium war, These shoes weren't made for walking, and Comrades: almost a love story -- 3. Working women in the people's Republic of China: Out of Phoenix Bridge, Women from the Lake of Scented Souls, and A little life opera -- Gangland Taiwan in the transnational imagination: Mahjong and Goodbye south goodbye -- 5. The postmodern condition in Singapore: Mee Pok Man and Twelve storeys -- 6. Transnational cinema and hybrid identities: To liv(e) and Crossings -- 7. Gender and generation in Clara Law's migration trilogy: Farewell China, Autumn moon, and Floating life -- 8. Fighting diaspora: the legacy of Bruce and Brandon Lee in Rapid fire -- 9. In the space of the Square: The gate of heavenly peace ID2: 291 More info
book		Hong Kong Babylon : an insider's guide to the Hollywood of the East / Fredric Dannen and Barry Long London: Faber and Faber, 1997. Call No: 71(512.317) DAN Author: Dannen, Fredric; Long, Barry Place: London Publisher: Faber and Faber PubDate: 1997 PhysDes: 412 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: WOO, JOHN [pseud. of Wu Yusen]; CHAN, JACKIE; CHAN, PETER; CHANG, SYLVIA; CHEUNG, LESLIE; CHOW, YUN-FAT; DOYLE, CHRISTOPHER; LAM, RINGO; LAW, CLARA; FONG, EDDIE [pseud. of Fong Ling-Ching]; SIAO, JOSEPHINE [pseud. of Siao Fong-Fong]; TSUI, HARK; WONG KAR-WAI Notes: Includes filmographies and index ISBN: 0571190405 Order Received: 1997 LON: abn97301453; 13417324 ID2: 291 More info
personality microfilm collection		LAW, CLARA Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTION PhysDes: Clippings Subject: LAW, CLARA More info
book		The St. James women filmmakers encyclopedia : women on the other side of the camera / edited by Amy L. Unterburger ; foreword by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Detroit: Visible Ink Press, c1999. Call No: 802.253 STJ Author: Unterburger, Amy L Place: Detroit Publisher: Visible Ink Press PubDate: c1999 PhysDes: xxvi, 568 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: DIRECTORS; ARMSTRONG, GILLIAN; CAMPION, JANE; CANTRILL, ARTHUR & CORINNE; LAW, CLARA; LYELL, LOTTIE; MCDONAGH, PAULETTE; MCDONAGH, PHYLLIS; MCDONAGH, ISABEL ISBN: 1578590922 (softcover) LON: 20020284 More info
journal article		Unsettling whiteness : the slippage of race and nation in Clara Law's Letters to Ali in Studies in Australasian cinema (2008) vol.2 iss.2 p.103-119 Author: Johnston, Meg PhysDes: Article Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LAW, CLARA; LETTERS TO ALI (AT, Clara Law, 2004) Summary: This article focuses on Clara Law's Letters to Ali (2004) as a recent example of a refugee-focused documentary film that both complicates and destabilizes the essential and exclusive categories of ‘whiteness’ and ‘otherness’ that have shaped Australian identity politics through recent politics. Centrally, this article will position Letters to Ali as a subversive project in accordance with Homi Bhabha's ideas of unsettling, displacing and disturbing the authority of normative whiteness that pervades our national identity in this climate. Through positioning whiteness as neither fixed nor final due to the ‘incommensurable differences’ it must take into account, this article will discuss both formal and narrative elements of Letters to Ali as working towards destabilizing an essential and static whiteness and, instead, focusing on its ‘marked’ and constructed nature. Critiquing whiteness as an ideal, according to Bhabha, Ghassan Hage and others, this discussion will displace and disrupt its ‘invisibility’ or normativity. In doing so, whiteness will be examined as part of national strategies of dominance and subordination, rather than as an authentic or singular identity, ‘reveal[ing] within the very integuments of “whiteness” the agonistic elements that makes it the unsettled, disturbed form of authority’. Clara Law's position as Asian Australian film-maker in relation to other national others such as ‘Ali’, the refugee subject of the film, will be crucial to this disruption: Law's own story of migration, of resettlement and naturalization is foregrounded in the film's narrative and, as such, she — and partner Eddie Fong — are the national citizens against which the refugee is to be measured in this binary logic. Taking into account these ‘incommensurable differences’ of the white identity, the categories of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’; of Australians and others, are ruptured and the frameworks of national membership are opened up to more liminal, transnational notions of identity and belonging. -- Abstract Notes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema: Part 1 More info

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