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Price: £20.00
Pages: 164
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Imprint: Hong Kong University Press
Series: New Hong Kong Cinema (Paperback)
Publication Date:
07 March 2009
Trim Size: 7.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9789622099197
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
"PTU is a refreshing subversion of an entire Hong Kong genre of films that seek easy heroism in rogue cops out for justice and sharply dressed gangsters who live by the codes. In PTU there is no code and less justice. A bit like real life." --Bryan Walsh,
Michael Ingham teaches at Lingnan University. He is the author of Hong Kong: A Cultural and Literary History (2007), and co-editor with Xu Xi of City Voices: Hong Kong Writing in English, 1945 to the Present (2003) and City Stage: Hong Kong Playwriting in English (2005).