In the West, Stephen Chow is renowned as the ground-breaking director and star of global blockbusters such as Kung Fu Hustle (2004) and Shaolin Soccer (2001). Among Hong Kong audiences, Chow is celebrated as the leading purveyor of local comedy, popularising the so-called mo-lei-tau (“gibberish”) brand of Cantonese vernacular humour, and cultivating a style of madcap comedy that often masks a trenchant social commentary. This volume approaches Chow from a diverse range of critical perspectives. Each of the essays, written by a host of renowned international scholars, offers compelling new interpretations of familiar hits such as From Beijing with Love (1994) and Journey to the West (2013). The detailed case studies of seminal local and global movies provide overdue critical attention to Chow's filmmaking, highlighting the aesthetic power, economic significance, and cultural impact of his films in both domestic and global markets. “This is a ground-breaking study of Stephen Chow's cinematic authorship and the role he plays in Hong Kong and global cinemas from angles including industrial conditions, his career, genres, and intertextual exchanges. It also offers an examination, through Chow, of Hong Kong television and cinema at large.” ― Victor Fan, King's College London, UK “ The Cinema of Stephen Chow will serve very effectively as a go-to reference for anyone who studies or researches Stephen Chow's works or the contemporary Hong Kong film industry.” ― Jessica Yeung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Gary Bettinson is Senior Lecturer in film studies at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai (2015), co-editor (with James Udden) of The Poetics of Chinese Cinema (2016) and (with Daniel Martin) Hong Kong Horror Cinema (2018), and chief editor of the Asian Cinema journal. Mark Gallagher is co-editor, with Yiman Wang, of Bloomsbury's Global East Asian Screen Cultures series and co-editor, with Chi-Yun Shin, of East Asian Film Noir (2015). He is the author of Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (2018), Another Steven Soderbergh Experience: Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood (2013) and Action Figures: Men, Action Films and Contemporary Adventure Narratives (2006). Vivian P.Y. Lee is the author of The Other Side of Glamour: The Left-wing Studio Network in Hong Kong Cinema in the Cold War Era and Beyond (2020) and The Post-Nostalgic Imagination: Hong Kong Cinema since 1997 (2009), and editor of East Asian Cinemas: Regional Flows and Global Transformations (2011). Yiman Wang is Professor of Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is author of Remaking Chinese Cinema: Through the Prism of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Hollywood (2013). She is a NEH (National Endowment for Humanities) awardee in 2019-20. She has guest edited a special issue for Feminist Media Histories on Asian feminist media (2019), and has published numerous articles in journals and edited volumes on the topics of Chinese cinema studies, independent documentary, star studies, ecocinema, race gender and early cinema, film remakes and adaptation.