Warning! Category III: The other Hong Kong cinema

Film Quarterly

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 12-26

  Davis, Darrell W ^a   Yueh Yu, Yeh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 28044462790     PISSN: 00151386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/fq.2001.54.4.12     Document Type: Review

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3. Cheng Yu, "Lu Qi: Softcore Sex and Hardcore Morality," A Study of Hong Kong Cinema in the Seventies (Urban Council, 1984), pp. 101-2
4. Stephen Sze, "The Characteristics and Fate of the Commercial Porn-Films of Hong Kong in the 90s," unpublished conference paper, "Asia at the Crossroads," Hong Kong, November 1998
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7. Sally Stockbridge, "Sexual Violence and Hong Kong Films: Regulation and Cultural Difference," in Media Information Australia 74 (1994), pp. 86-92
8. Hoberman, p. 120
9. Sze, "The Characteristics and Fate of the Commercial Porn-Films," p. 4
10. Fonoroff, p. 350. Love to Kill made just under HKD 3 million
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12. Julian Stringer, "Category 3: Sex and Violence in Postmodern Hong Kong," in Mythologies of Violence in Postmodern Media, ed. Christopher Sharrett (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1999)
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22. Cheung Man-yee, South China Morning Post, October 30, 1999
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25. Schaefer, op. cit.; Doherty, Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930-1934 (N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1999)
26. Mike Quarles, Down and Dirty: Hollywood's Exploitation Filmmakers and Their Movies (Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 1993)
27. David Frasier, Russ Meyer, the Life and Films (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1990)
28. Richard Meyers, For One Week Only: The World of Exploitation Films (Piscataway, N.J.: New Century Publishers, 1983)
29. Laura Kipnis, Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999)
30. Kipnis, "(Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading Hustler," Cultural Studies, ed. Nelson, Treichler, Grossberg (N.Y.: Routledge, 1992), pp. 373-91
31. Eithne Johnson, "Excess and Ecstasy: Constructing Female Pleasure in Porn Movies," Velvet Light Trap 32 (Fall 1993), pp. 30-50
32. Carol Clover, Men, Women and Chainsaws
33. Linda Williams, Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the "Frenzy of the Visible" (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989)
34. Jeffrey Goldstein (ed.), Why We Watch: The Attractions of Violent Entertainment (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)
35. Annette Hill, Shocking Entertainment: Viewer Response to Violent Movies (Bedfordshire, U.K.: University of Luton Press, 1997)
36. "PornUtopia," in Lingua Franca (April/May 1997)