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Potokina, O. V. Formula of Cinematograph: Poetics of Hong Kong Police Movie

Abstract: Hong Kong cinematograph is one of the least studied phenomena in Russian cultural studies. Its history is closely connected both with a Chinese traditional culture and the newest achievements of mass media during ÕÕ–ÕÕI centuries. Popular genre of police movie can be studied with the use of the method of typological analysis. The author of the article comes to a conclusion that the structure and artistic language of such movies have formulaicity that complies with a certain genre canon. The canon combines both the best achievements in Hong Kong cinematograph and new successful elements. This very important genre of Hong Kong cinematograph well reß ects Hong Kong modern society.


Keywords:

cultural studies, foreign cinematograph, Hong Kong art, Chinese cinematograph, history of foreign cinematograph, genre movie, mass culture, canon, tradition.


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