It was wonderful presenting, and participating with colleagues, at the "Cold Front: Reflections on the Chinese Cold War Experience and Comparison" Conference presented by The Research Institute for the Humanities at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on September 15-16, 2014. Dr. Adam Cathcart's summary of the event can be read on the Sino-NK website
here.
The paper I presented is an exploration of martial arts director King Hu's films in a
transnational context. Placing King Hu’s films within the framework of
the Cold War reveals that analyses of the director’s films are not
entirely exhausted by accounts of important studios such as the Shaw
Brothers in Hong Kong or
Lian Bang Ying Ye Gong Si (Union Film)
in Taiwan, editing stylistics, or social contextualizations in terms of
the rise of modernization. My paper is tentatively/currently entitled:
"Hot Wars on Screen during the Cold War: King Hu’s Martial Arts Films in
a Transnational Context."
