Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World -- Part I. Hong Kong's New Wave Cinema -- 1. An Overview of Hong Kong's New Wave Cinema -- 2. The Emergence of the Hong Kong New Wave -- Part ll. In Action: Entertainment, Aesthetics, and Reinventions -- 3. Aesthetics in Action: Kungfu, Gunplay, and Cinematic Expressivity -- 4. The Killer: Cult Film and Transcultural (Mis)Reading -- 5. Life Imitates Entertainment: Home and Dislocation in the Films of Jackie Chan -- 6. Tsui Hark: National Style and Polemic -- 7. Hong Kong Hysteria: Martial Arts Tales from a Mutating World -- 8. Women on the Edges of Hong Kong Modernity: The Films of Ann Hui -- Part III. A Culture of Disappearance: Nostalgia, Nonsense, and Dislocation -- 9. A Souvenir of Love -- 10. Film and Enigmatization: Nostalgia, Nonsense, and Remembering -- 11. Transnational Exchanges, Questions of Culture, and Global Cinema: Defining the Dynamics of Changing Relationships -- 12. Transnationalization of the Local in Hong Kong Cinema of the 1990s -- 13. The Intimate Spaces of Wong Kar-wai -- Glossary -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.