Wendy Gan
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888028566
- eISBN:
- 9789882206991
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028566.003.0007
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter explores dissemination in the context of Hong Kong cinema and in particular it looks at two films made back-to-back by award-winning independent director Fruit Chan, Little Cheung, and ...
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This chapter explores dissemination in the context of Hong Kong cinema and in particular it looks at two films made back-to-back by award-winning independent director Fruit Chan, Little Cheung, and Durian Durian. Little Cheung as the final installment of Chan's “Handover Trilogy” is of interest for its disseminatory take on Hong Kong as Chan highlights both the hidden heterogeneity of the territory with his attention to marginalized ethnic groups such as the Filipinas and South Asians amid the dominant Cantonese-speaking locals and the homogeneity that nonetheless holds these diverse communities together. Little Cheung balances centripetal and centrifugal forces at work within Hong Kong, revealing differences and divisions but also using the tropes of money and friendship to act as bridges between fragmented groups. Chan's next film after Little Cheung and Durian Durian, though the beginning of a different trilogy, can be usefully seen as developing the ideas of fragmentary nationhood explored in its predecessor.Less
This chapter explores dissemination in the context of Hong Kong cinema and in particular it looks at two films made back-to-back by award-winning independent director Fruit Chan, Little Cheung, and Durian Durian. Little Cheung as the final installment of Chan's “Handover Trilogy” is of interest for its disseminatory take on Hong Kong as Chan highlights both the hidden heterogeneity of the territory with his attention to marginalized ethnic groups such as the Filipinas and South Asians amid the dominant Cantonese-speaking locals and the homogeneity that nonetheless holds these diverse communities together. Little Cheung balances centripetal and centrifugal forces at work within Hong Kong, revealing differences and divisions but also using the tropes of money and friendship to act as bridges between fragmented groups. Chan's next film after Little Cheung and Durian Durian, though the beginning of a different trilogy, can be usefully seen as developing the ideas of fragmentary nationhood explored in its predecessor.
