...Rey Chow Copyright © 1999 by Indiana University Press 1999 Nostalgia of the New Wave: Structure In Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together Rey Chow In one of the earliest discussions of poststrueturalism to appear in English, "Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness...

... Review of Film and Video, Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context , and Film Quarterly . Wong’s dragon lady costume was condemned by Chinese nationalists and raved about in American publicity writings. The Art of Screen Passing: Anna May Wong’s Yellow Yellowface...

... famous for its production of muscular bodies-from Bruce Lee, through the kung fu comics, to Jackie Chan. John Woo's tightly choreographed gunfight sequences are a sheer deployment of virile bodies. In the movies of Tsui Hark and Wong Kar-wai, the action bodies go beyond...

... case, people were trying to solve China’s problems. I decided that if I had the chance, I would link Wong Fei-Hung [the protagonist in the Once upon a Time in China series] with every incident in the modern history of China. That’s why when it was time to decide the English title for the film, I...

... Invasion Themes in Vampire Narratives. No. 40-41; pp. 181-200. Chow, Rey Nostalgia in the New Wave: Structure in Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together. No. 42; pp. 31-50. Dean, Jodi The Truth is Out There: Aliens and the Fugitivity of Postmodern Truth. No. 40-41; pp. 43-76. DiPiero, Thomas...

... key representations of Orientalist ide- ology. The star discourses of Anna May Wong and Tsuru Aoki, discussed here by Yiman Wang and Sara Ross, respectively, indi- cate how competing notions of sexuality and femininity were pro- jected onto these actresses. Across the spectrum of the American...

... over by actresses who out- shone their male costars both on-screen and in fan magazines. The primacy of female performers is also written on the sound tracks of this time when, to use an oft-cited phrase from the popular music historian Wong Kee-chee, the idea of “no film without a song...

...- land.3 More recently, both a 16mm and a 35mm print of Marion E. Wong’s The Curse of the Quon Dong (US, 1917) were found to be held by her family, although all that had previously been known of her Mandarin Motion Picture Company in Oakland, California, was from a Moving Picture World blurb...

...,” particularly “in a global context . . . in which the movement of queer images across national borders facilitates the creation of a public world of belonging,” a point Marc Siegel makes in his astute reading of the imagery of gay “sexual ghetto” spaces in Happy Together (Chunguang zhaxie, dir. Wong Kar...

...; The World of Suzie Wong (dir. Richard Quine, US/UK, 1960), a romance about a white American man who falls in love with a Chinese prostitute in Hong Kong; and My Geisha (dir. Jack Cardiff, US, 1962), a truly bizarre film starring Shirley MacLaine as a famous actress who disguises herself as a...

... for a particularly German historical moment. Indeed, the canon of global postmodern films such as those by Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, or Wong Kar-Wai has not offered simi- larly expansive, euphoric endings. In Tykwer’s films, film time is dominated by the struggles of (generally female...

... birth itself as an act or technology of migration and naturalization. Indeed, the legitimation of birthright citizenship consti- tutes a significant chapter in Asian American history. InUnited States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a US-­born Chinese man who...

..., www.wired.com /story/tech- leadership- race- problem/; Julia Wong, Segregated Valley: The Ugly Truth about Google and Diversity in Tech, Guardian, 7 August 2017, www.theguardian.com/technology /2017/aug/07/silicon- valley- google- diversity- black- women - workers. 178 Camera Obscura 5. Marc Tracy and...

... film's visibility and viability as an awards contender. Agnès Varda fits into the category of filmmakers described by Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong and other festival scholars as a filmmaker whose auteur status has been developed and maintained by major festivals throughout her career. 6 While many of...

...), co-authored by James Wong and Glen Morgan, Mulder (David Duchovny) introduces Scully (Gillian Anderson) to the Lone Gun- men, three high-tech conspiracy theorists who reappear in subse- quent episodes to provide the FBI agents with pieces of vast puzzles which never quite...

... other two make out with each other for his voyeuris- tic benefit. This flagrant display of a hypersexualized yellow mas- culinity infuriates the black bouncers, and racial violence is about to erupt when Po’s bodyguard, Kai (Russell Wong), arrives on the scene with his henchmen. Defusing the situation...

... rhetoric of indecent adornment that performs the work of exclusion (say, the intense production design of Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love [Fa yeung nin wa, Hong Kong/France, 2000]) or, even, as in Stella Dallas, the prob- lem of decoration narrativized. This structure leads to a...

... Shop after a Long Night at Madame Wong’s (An Homage)” (2010). Courtesy Fiona I. B. Ngô Blog Ambition: Fashion, Feelings, and the Political Economy of the Digital Raced Body Minh-­Ha T. Pham In 2007, the Pulitzer Prize–winning fashion writer and former blogger Robin Givhan...