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Against-Diaspora: The Cultural Identity of Wong Kar-Wai's Martial Arts Films

Authors
Hao Zhao1, *
1School of Marxism, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, 650224, China
*Corresponding author. Email: zhh@swfu.edu.cn
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Hao Zhao
Available Online 13 February 2023.
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
13 February 2023
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10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_162
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2352-5398
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