Arresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film. Fang 9780804798914 New<|

Arresting CinemaSurveillance in Hong Kong Film\nAuthor(s): Karen Fang\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804798914, 978-0804798914\nSynopsis\nWhen Ridley Scott envisioned Blade Runner's set as \""Hong Kong on a bad day,\"" he nodded to the city's overcrowding as well as its widespread use of surveillance. But while Scott brought Hong Kong and surveillance into the global film repertoire, the city's own cinema has remained outside of the global surveillance discussion.\n\n In Arresting Cinema, Karen Fang delivers a unifying account of Hong Kong cinema that draws upon its renowned crime films and other unique genres to demonstrate Hong Kong's view of surveillance. She argues that Hong Kong's films display a tolerance ofand even opportunism towardsthe soft cage of constant observation, unlike the fearful view prevalent in the West. However, many surveillance cinema studies focus solely on European and Ho""