About the Author

Laikwan Pang teaches cultural studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Building a New Cinema in China The Chinese Left-wing Cinema Movement, 1932-37 (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004) and Cultural Control and Globalisation in Asia Copyright, Piracy and Cinema (RoutledgeCurzon, forthcoming). Day Wong is a lecturer in the General Education Centre at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research and teaching areas include gender and sexuality, feminist theories, and Foucault's works. She has written and written journal articles and book chapters on violence against women and sexual politics.

Reviews

"This sparkling collection shatters the idea that masculinity in commercial films is a simple and singular force. Bringing gender analysis to bear on the themes, industrial structures and reception of Hong Kong cinema, this indispensable reading for stude