Law in Context #: Film and Constitutional Controversy

Visualizing Hong Kong Identity in the Age of 'One Country, Two Systems'

Law in Context #: Film and Constitutional Controversy
Marco Wan
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9781108797764
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In modern-day Hong Kong, major constitutional controversies have caused people to demonstrate on the streets, immigrate to other countries, occupy major thoroughfares, and even engage in violence. These controversies have such great resonance because they put pressure on a cultural identity made possible by, and inseparable from, the ' One Country, Two Systems' framework. Hong Kong is also a city synonymous with film, ranging from commercial gangster movies to the art cinema of Wong Kar-wai. This book argues that while the importance of constitutional controversies for the process of self-formation may not be readily discernible in court judgments and legislative enactments, it is registered in the diverse modes of expression found in Hong Kong cinema. It contends that film gives form to the ways in which Hong Kong identity is articulated, placed under stress, bolstered, and transformed in light of disputes about the nature and meaning of the city' s constitutional documents.

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' Few books I know of interweave cinema and law as intelligently as Film and Constitutional Controversy in elucidating Hong Kong' s post-1997 identity crisis. For anyone concerned with contemporary Hong Kong, China, and the wide-ranging legacies of British colonialism, Marco Wan' s informative, judicious account is a must-read. It has so much to tell us about the practical conundrums, allegorical fantasies, and popular affects stemming from this singular historical situation. ' Rey Chow, Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature, Duke University ' Marco Wan' s Film and Constitutional Controversy is a fascinating contribution that makes creative use of the nexus between film, culture, and law to trace Hong Kong' s unique historical trajectory. At the same time, Wan draws on Hong Kong' s singular relationship to the rule of law to offer fresh insights into how film and law can be mutually illuminating. ' Michel Rosenfeld, University Professor of Law and Comparative Democracy, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Marco Wan is Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Law and Literary Studies Programme at the University of Hong Kong. He is trained in both legal and literary/cultural studies, and his research focuses on law and film, law and literature, and the ways in which perspectives from the humanities shed light on the legal regulation of gender and sexuality. His first book, Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction (2017), was awarded the Penny Pether Prize from the Law, Literature, and Humanities Association of Australasia. He is Managing Editor of Law and Literature.
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ISBN-13: 9781108797764
Published: 4 Feb 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 244mm
Width: 170mm
Spine: 10mm
Weight: 316g
Pages: 300

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