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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Notes on the Contributors viii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I Formations and Fragmentations: the Development of Hong Kong Horror
7. 1 What Can a Neoi Gwei Teach Us? Adaptation as Reincarnation in Hong Kong Horror of the 1950s 17
8. 2 The White Snake in Hong Kong Horror Cinema: from Horrific Tales to Crowd Pleasers 34
9. 3 From Killer Snakes to Taxi Hunters: Hong Kong Horror in an Exploitation Context 52
10. 4 The Enduring Cult of The Bride with White Hair: Chivalry and the Monstrous Other in the Hong Kong Fantasy-Horror 64
11. Part II Genre Hybridity: Comedy and Kung Fu in the Hong Kong Horror
12. 5 Animated Pasts and Unseen Futures: on the Comic Element in Hong Kong Horror 77
13. 6 Performing (Comic) Abjection in the Hong Kong Ghost Story 97
14. 7 Hands, Fingers and Fists: ‘Grasping’ Hong Kong Horror Films 110
15. 8 Tsui Hark’s Detective Dee Films: Police Procedural Colludes with Supernatural-Martial Arts Cinema 133
16. Part III Transnational Trends: Globalisation and Politics in Contemporary Hong Kong Horror
17. 9 Cross-border Implications: Transnational Haunting, Gender and the Persistent Look of The Eye 147
18. 10 Food for Thought: Cannibalism in The Untold Story and Dumplings 165
19. 11 Sympathy for the Slasher: Strategies of Character Engagement in Pang Ho-cheung’s Dream Home 185
20. 12 Ghostly Returns: the Politics of Horror in Hong Kong Cinema 204
21. Index 223