Cultural memory, the trope of "Humble Wage Earners," and everyman heroism in the Hui brothers’ comedies and their remake /

I attend to the trope of Humble Wage Earners (daa gung zai 打工仔) in the Hui brothers’ comedies and their remake Fantasia (Gwai maa kong soeng kuk 鬼馬狂想曲, 2004) and argue that they preserve a cultural memory of Hong Kong during transitional periods. The trope and its everyman heroism are keys to decodi...

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Typ dokumentu: Článek
Jazyk: angličtina
ISSN: 0044-8699
Zdroj: Archiv orientální: Volume 90, number 3 (2022), page 417-446.
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