Kim-mui E. Elaine Chan has been teaching film studies and cultural studies in Hong Kong for undergraduate and post-graduate core programmes respectively at Lingnan University and Hong Kong Baptist University since 2005. Her work has appeared in such academic journals as the Journal of Chinese Cinemas and the International Journal of Cinema. Chan received her PhD in Film Studies from the University of Kent, UK. 

Introduction

1: Film Noir, Crisis and Politics of Identity

2: The Private Eye Blues: The Cinematic Space that Matters

3: City of Glass: A Temporal Character of Plot

4: Happy Together: Swapping the Archetypal Roles

5: Swordsman II: Performance and Performativity

Conclusion