Gary Bettinson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5936063 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gary Bettinson |
| PRENOMES | Gary |
| SOBRENOME | Bettinson |
| ASSINATURA | BETTINSON G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | ISNI: 0000000081906402 Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7645-9075 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
In Broad Daylight and the new Hong Kong film generation
The sophomore feature of writer-director Lawrence Kan, In Broad Daylight (2023) is among the finest films yet produced by Hong Kong’s rising crop of filmmakers. It dramatizes a factual scandal stil
Kung Fu Scholar
In Planet Hong Kong and other writings, David Bordwell greatly advanced the academic study of Hong Kong cinema. From a perspective of “stealth poetics,” Bordwell illuminated the craft practices, aesthetic norms, and spectatorial effects that characterize filmmaking in the region. Yet his work drew the ire of scholars wedded to an allegorical hermeneutics of Hong Kong cinema. In this article, I contrast Bordwell's bottom-up analysis with the cultu…
Milkyway meditations
A wide-ranging career interview with Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To. The interview canvasses To’s early career and filmic influences, the founding of his production company, Milkyway Image, his flirtation with Hollywood, his taste in acting and his adjustment to new film technologies. In addition, To recounts the making of key films in his oeuvre, reveals his views on the current state of Hong Kong cinema and ruminates on the prospects of a secon…
Making Tracey
This interview with writer–producer Shu Kei provides an oral history of Hong Kong drama Tracey (2018), the directorial debut of rising talent Jun Li. An integral player in every aspect of Tracey ’s production, Shu Kei recounts the film’s inception, preparatory phase, shooting, editing, release and reception. He chronicles the vicissitudes of working with a new generation of actors and a first-time director. His account of Tracey ’s production she…
East Asian Film Remakes
Film Theory
Six exemplary works of film theory, published in 2018–19, receive consideration in this chapter: Johannes Riis and Aaron Taylor’s anthology Screening Characters: Theories of Character in Film, Television, and Interactive Media; Murray Pomerance’s Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor’s Magic; Jonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis’s edited collection When the Movies Mattered: The New Hollywood Revisited; Jeff Menne’s Post-Fordist Cinema: Hollywood Au…
Staging and Performance in Sidney Lumet’s Deathtrap
This article provides a stylistic examination of Sidney Lumet’s thriller Deathtrap (1982), analyzing how its strategies of staging and performance generate narrational effects of suspense and surprise. It argues that Lumet anchors these performative strategies to a broad authorial program grounded in expressive subtlety; as such, Lumet’s film reminds us of a waning tradition of US filmmaking in which stylistic ingenuity resides at the denotative …
Yesterday once more
Since Ackbar Abbas theorized Hong Kong as a space of cultural ‘disappearance’ in the mid-1990s, critics have debated the extent to which local cultural forms have continued to recede, particularly as a corollary of Hong Kong’s increasing subjection to mainlandization. For several critics, the region’s cinema has already vanished from view, only to re-emerge in a brand new, distinctly Sinicized guise – that of ‘post-Hong Kong cinema,’ a mode of pr…
Film Theory
In this chapter I review six contributions to the field of film theory published in 2018: Carl Plantinga’s Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement (Oxford University Press); Miklós Kiss and Steven Willemsen’s Impossible Puzzle Films: A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema (Edinburgh University Press); Nicholas Godfrey’s The Limits of Auteurism: Case Studies in the Critically Constructed New Hollywood (Rutgers University …
Sympathy for the Slasher
Pang Ho-cheung’s Dream Home (2010) is a controversial Hong Kong slasher movie in which a killer (played by Josie Ho) constitutes the prime object of spectator sympathy and allegiance. To its detractors, the film falls foul of an “aesthetic error”: by presenting the heroine’s victims as “undeserving” of brutalization, Dream Home inadvertently undercuts its own attempt to generate sympathy for the slasher protagonist. This paper attempts to dispute…
Hong Kong Horror Cinema
The first book-length English-language study of Hong Kong horror films Dumplings stuffed with diabolical fillings. Sword-wielding zombies. Hopping cadavers. Big-head babies. For decades, Hong Kong cinema has served up images of horror quite unlike those found in other parts of the world. In seminal films such as A Chinese Ghost Story, Rouge, The Eye, Dumplings , and Rigor Mortis , the region’s filmmakers have pushed the boundaries of genre, cinem…
Hong Kong Horror Cinema
Dumplings stuffed with diabolical fillings. Sword-wielding zombies. Hopping cadavers. Big-head babies. For decades, Hong Kong cinema has served up images of horror quite unlike those found in other parts of the world. In seminal films such as A Chinese Ghost Story , Rouge , The Eye , Dumplings , and Rigor Mortis , the region’s filmmakers have pushed the boundaries of genre, cinematic style, and bad taste. But what makes Hong Kong horror cinema so…
The Poetics of Chinese Cinema
This book examines the aesthetic qualities of particular Chinese-language films and the rich artistic traditions from which they spring. It brings together leading experts in the field, and encompasse
Directory of World Cinema
List of contributors: Bruce Bennett Gary Bettinson Adam Bingham Frank Bren Esther MK Cheung Cheung Tit Leung Lin Feng Kenneth E Hall Marisa C Hayes Mette Hjort Brian Hu Law Kar Leung Wing-Fai Song Hwee Lim Bey Logan Grace Mak Gary Needham Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley Jeff Smith David Sterritt Lisa Odham Stokes James Udden Tony Williams
From Fu Manchu to Kung Fu Panda
How have China and the Chinese been represented in Hollywood film? What historical circumstances have given rise to the changing portraits of China across Hollywood history? What do the Hollywood depictions of China reveal about America itself? These are the key issues explored by Naomi Greene in From Fu Manchu to Kung Fu Panda, a recent addition to the Critical Interventions series from the University of Hawai'i Press. An incisive work of sympto…
The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai
The widely acclaimed films of Wong Kar-wai are characterized by their sumptuous yet complex visual and sonic style. This study of Wong's filmmaking techniques uses a poetics approach to examine how form, music, narration, characterization, genre and other artistic elements work together to produce certain effects on audiences. Bettinson argues that Wong's films are permeated by an aesthetic of sensuousness and "disturbance" achieved through techn…
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The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai
The widely acclaimed films of Wong Kar-wai are characterized by their sumptuous yet complex visual and sonic style. This study of Wong's filmmaking techniques uses a poetics approach to examine how form, music, narration, characterization, genre and other artistic elements work together to produce certain effects on audiences. Bettinson argues that Wong's films are permeated by an aesthetic of sensuousness and "disturbance" achieved through techn…
Directory of World Cinema
List of contributors: Bruce Bennett Gary Bettinson Adam Bingham Frank Bren Esther MK Cheung Cheung Tit Leung Lin Feng Kenneth E Hall Marisa C Hayes Mette Hjort Brian Hu Law Kar Leung Wing-Fai Song Hwee Lim Bey Logan Grace Mak Gary Needham Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley Jeff Smith David Sterritt Lisa Odham Stokes James Udden Tony Williams
From Fu Manchu to Kung Fu Panda
How have China and the Chinese been represented in Hollywood film? What historical circumstances have given rise to the changing portraits of China across Hollywood history? What do the Hollywood depictions of China reveal about America itself? These are the key issues explored by Naomi Greene in From Fu Manchu to Kung Fu Panda, a recent addition to the Critical Interventions series from the University of Hawai'i Press. An incisive work of sympto…
The Poetics of Chinese Cinema
This book examines the aesthetic qualities of particular Chinese-language films and the rich artistic traditions from which they spring. It brings together leading experts in the field, and encompasse
Sympathy for the Slasher
Pang Ho-cheung’s Dream Home (2010) is a controversial Hong Kong slasher movie in which a killer (played by Josie Ho) constitutes the prime object of spectator sympathy and allegiance. To its detractors, the film falls foul of an “aesthetic error”: by presenting the heroine’s victims as “undeserving” of brutalization, Dream Home inadvertently undercuts its own attempt to generate sympathy for the slasher protagonist. This paper attempts to dispute…
Hong Kong Horror Cinema
The first book-length English-language study of Hong Kong horror films Dumplings stuffed with diabolical fillings. Sword-wielding zombies. Hopping cadavers. Big-head babies. For decades, Hong Kong cinema has served up images of horror quite unlike those found in other parts of the world. In seminal films such as A Chinese Ghost Story, Rouge, The Eye, Dumplings , and Rigor Mortis , the region’s filmmakers have pushed the boundaries of genre, cinem…
Hong Kong Horror Cinema
Dumplings stuffed with diabolical fillings. Sword-wielding zombies. Hopping cadavers. Big-head babies. For decades, Hong Kong cinema has served up images of horror quite unlike those found in other parts of the world. In seminal films such as A Chinese Ghost Story , Rouge , The Eye , Dumplings , and Rigor Mortis , the region’s filmmakers have pushed the boundaries of genre, cinematic style, and bad taste. But what makes Hong Kong horror cinema so…
Film Theory
In this chapter I review six contributions to the field of film theory published in 2018: Carl Plantinga’s Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement (Oxford University Press); Miklós Kiss and Steven Willemsen’s Impossible Puzzle Films: A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema (Edinburgh University Press); Nicholas Godfrey’s The Limits of Auteurism: Case Studies in the Critically Constructed New Hollywood (Rutgers University …
Yesterday once more
Since Ackbar Abbas theorized Hong Kong as a space of cultural ‘disappearance’ in the mid-1990s, critics have debated the extent to which local cultural forms have continued to recede, particularly as a corollary of Hong Kong’s increasing subjection to mainlandization. For several critics, the region’s cinema has already vanished from view, only to re-emerge in a brand new, distinctly Sinicized guise – that of ‘post-Hong Kong cinema,’ a mode of pr…
Film Theory
Six exemplary works of film theory, published in 2018–19, receive consideration in this chapter: Johannes Riis and Aaron Taylor’s anthology Screening Characters: Theories of Character in Film, Television, and Interactive Media; Murray Pomerance’s Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor’s Magic; Jonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis’s edited collection When the Movies Mattered: The New Hollywood Revisited; Jeff Menne’s Post-Fordist Cinema: Hollywood Au…
Staging and Performance in Sidney Lumet’s Deathtrap
This article provides a stylistic examination of Sidney Lumet’s thriller Deathtrap (1982), analyzing how its strategies of staging and performance generate narrational effects of suspense and surprise. It argues that Lumet anchors these performative strategies to a broad authorial program grounded in expressive subtlety; as such, Lumet’s film reminds us of a waning tradition of US filmmaking in which stylistic ingenuity resides at the denotative …
East Asian Film Remakes
Milkyway meditations
A wide-ranging career interview with Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To. The interview canvasses To’s early career and filmic influences, the founding of his production company, Milkyway Image, his flirtation with Hollywood, his taste in acting and his adjustment to new film technologies. In addition, To recounts the making of key films in his oeuvre, reveals his views on the current state of Hong Kong cinema and ruminates on the prospects of a secon…
Making Tracey
This interview with writer–producer Shu Kei provides an oral history of Hong Kong drama Tracey (2018), the directorial debut of rising talent Jun Li. An integral player in every aspect of Tracey ’s production, Shu Kei recounts the film’s inception, preparatory phase, shooting, editing, release and reception. He chronicles the vicissitudes of working with a new generation of actors and a first-time director. His account of Tracey ’s production she…
In Broad Daylight and the new Hong Kong film generation
The sophomore feature of writer-director Lawrence Kan, In Broad Daylight (2023) is among the finest films yet produced by Hong Kong’s rising crop of filmmakers. It dramatizes a factual scandal stil
Kung Fu Scholar
In Planet Hong Kong and other writings, David Bordwell greatly advanced the academic study of Hong Kong cinema. From a perspective of “stealth poetics,” Bordwell illuminated the craft practices, aesthetic norms, and spectatorial effects that characterize filmmaking in the region. Yet his work drew the ire of scholars wedded to an allegorical hermeneutics of Hong Kong cinema. In this article, I contrast Bordwell's bottom-up analysis with the cultu…
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