The Cinema of Hong Kong Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 40,7 Mb
• Release Date : 25 March 2002

This volume examines Hong Kong cinema in transnational, historical, and artistic contexts.

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 25 July 2019

This is the first full-length English-language study of one of the world's most exciting and innovative cinemas. Covering a period from 1909 to 'the end of Hong Kong cinema' in the

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 52,8 Mb
• Release Date : 29 August 2003

Examining Hong Kong cinema from its inception in 1913 to the end of the colonial era, this work explains the key areas of production, market, film products and critical traditions. Hong

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 38,9 Mb
• Release Date : 03 June 2024

This definitive study of Hong Kong cinema examines the work of directors such as Tsui Hark, John Woo, Ringo Lam, Johnnie To, King Hu, and Wong Kar Wai.

• Publisher : Scarecrow Press
• File Size : 47,8 Mb
• Release Date : 03 June 2024

Starting with the first "Western shadow plays" shown in the late 1890s, motion pictures have played a significant role in China's cultural existence for more than a century. Initially centered

• Publisher : Verso
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• Release Date : 03 June 1999

Hong Kong's film industry gained global attention in the 1980s, at the time of negotiations over Great Britain's return of the colony to China. Uncertainty about the post-handover era accelerated

• Publisher : Berghahn Books
• File Size : 23,8 Mb
• Release Date : 01 November 2015

The trajectory of Hong Kong films had been drastically affected long before the city’s official sovereignty transfer from the British to the Chinese in 1997. The change in course has

• Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
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• Release Date : 03 June 2024

Breathtaking swordplay and nostalgic love, Peking opera and Chow Yun-fat's cult followers -- these are some of the elements of the vivid and diverse urban imagination that find form and

• Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
• File Size : 47,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 November 2013

From melodrama to Cantonese opera, from silents to 3D animated film, Remaking Chinese Cinema traces cross-Pacific film remaking over the last eight decades. Through the refractive prism of Hollywood, Shanghai,

• Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
• File Size : 51,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 October 2005

Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world's most popular cultural genres: action cinema. Hong Kong action films have proved popular over the decades