Against-Diaspora: The Cultural Identity of Wong Kar-Wai's Martial Arts Films
- DOI
- 10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_162How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- against-diaspora; cultural identity; martial arts film; Wuxia; Wong Kar-wai; Ashes of Time; The Grandmaster
- Abstract
Wong Kar-wai's martial arts films cross the borders of commerce, genre and art, contain features of the times and tradition. By invoking related theories and methods of James Clifford and Shu-mei Shih, etc., targeting Wong Kar-wai's martial arts films as the research subject as well as a special case, this paper aims to discuss how cultural identity is represented in auteur Wong Kar-wai's martial arts films from the perspective of against-diaspora. In terms of text analysis, a necessary comparison and interpretation is made for Wong Kar-wai's two martial arts films: Ashes of Time (1994) and The Grandmaster (2013). The author argues that the films taken up for study, reveal the juxtaposition of nomadism and nostalgia, both as an approach and a representation in pursuit of cultural identity and cultural belonging.
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TY - CONF AU - Hao Zhao PY - 2023 DA - 2023/02/13 TI - Against-Diaspora: The Cultural Identity of Wong Kar-Wai's Martial Arts Films BT - Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1267 EP - 1273 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_162 DO - 10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_162 ID - Zhao2023 ER -