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Yonfan's Bugis Street (The New Hong Kong Cinema)
Kenneth Chan
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Paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages, 7 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 191 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1000.
Bugis Street was famous (or notorious) for being a haunt of transgender prostitution in the early decades of postcolonial Singapore. Since then the site has been a source of touristic obsession and local cultural anxiety. In his 1995 film Bugis Street, director Yonfan brings the short lane back to vivid cinematic life. By focusing on the film's representations of queer sexualities and transgender experience, this book contends that the under-appreciated Bugis Street is a significant instance of queer transnational cinema. The film's playful yet nuanced articulations of queer embodiment, spatiality, and temporality provide an unexpected intervention in the public discourses ... Read more
Bugis Street was famous (or notorious) for being a haunt of transgender prostitution in the early decades of postcolonial Singapore. Since then the site has been a source of touristic obsession and local cultural anxiety. In his 1995 film Bugis Street, director Yonfan brings the short lane back to vivid cinematic life. By focusing on the film's representations of queer sexualities and transgender experience, this book contends that the under-appreciated Bugis Street is a significant instance of queer transnational cinema. The film's playful yet nuanced articulations of queer embodiment, spatiality, and temporality provide an unexpected intervention in the public discourses ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Hong Kong University Press
Condition
New
Series
The New Hong Kong Cinema
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
ISBN
9789888208753
SKU
V9789888208753
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About Kenneth Chan
Kenneth Chan is associate professor of English and director of film studies at the University of Northern Colorado. He is the author of Remade in Hollywood: The Global Chinese Presence in Transnational Cinemas (Hong Kong University Press).
Reviews for Yonfan's Bugis Street (The New Hong Kong Cinema)
Grounded in rigorous research that places the film in nuanced historical and cultural contexts, this adventurous study of Bugis Street brings timely attention to an iconic yet persistently under-appreciated film. Superbly written in a clear and personable style, this engaging book will be welcome by scholars and film buffs alike.
Helen Hok-Sze Leung, author of Undercurrents: Queer Culture and ... Read more
Helen Hok-Sze Leung, author of Undercurrents: Queer Culture and ... Read more