From local cinema to national : Stephen Chow's 'competent loser' and the question of Hong Kong identity

• Main Author: Tseng, Christian Ke Ting
• Other Authors: Marc Gloede
• Format: Thesis-Master by Research
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Visual arts and music::Film
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148475
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study centres on a recent development in the filmmaking career of the well- known Hong Kong comedian, actor and director, Stephen Chow; by focusing on a character typically applied by him, the competent loser. While much of the widely cited studies on Chow focus only on his nonsensical style of...