Author: Rick BakerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781899252022
Category : Action and adventure films
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The essential guide to deadly China dolls
Author: Rick BakerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781899252022
Category : Action and adventure films
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
City on Fire
Author: Lisa Odham StokesPublisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859842034
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Uncertainty about the post-handover era accelerated Hong Kong's race for economic growth, and found expression in cinema's depictions of a city on fire. This book reviews the directors and films that have established Hong Kong's cinema's reputation.
Super Bitches and Action Babes
Author: Rikke SchubartPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786482842
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
With actress Pam Grier's breakthrough in Coffy and Foxy Brown, women entered action, science fiction, war, westerns and martial arts films--genres that had previously been considered the domain of male protagonists. This ground-breaking cinema, however, was--and still is--viewed with ambivalence. While women were cast in new and exciting roles, they did not always arrive with their femininity intact, often functioning both as a sexualized spectacle and as a new female hero rather than female character. This volume contains an in-depth critical analysis and study of the female hero in popular film from 1970 to 2006. It examines five female archetypes: the dominatrix, the Amazon, the daughter, the mother and the rape-avenger. The entrance of the female hero into films written by, produced by and made for men is viewed through the lens of feminism and post-feminism arguments. Analyzed works include films with actors Michelle Yeoh and Meiko Kaji, the Alien films, the Lara Croft franchise, Charlie's Angels, and television productions such as Xena: Warrior Princess and Alias.
Kung Fu Cult Masters
Author: Leon HuntPublisher: Wallflower Press
ISBN: 9781903364635
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Chinese Martial Arts films have captured audiences' imaginations around the world. In this wide-ranging study, Hunt looks at the mythic allure of the Shaolin Temple, the 'Clones' of Bruce Lee, gender-bending swordswomen, and the knockabout comedy of Sammo Hung, bringing new insights to a hugely popular and yet critically neglected genre. 12 photos.
Warrior Women
Author: Lisa FunnellPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438452500
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Finalist for the 2014 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Women's Studies Category Bronze Medalist, 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women Issues Category Winnerof the 2015 Emily Toth Award presented by the Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association Warrior Women considers the significance of Chinese female action stars in martial arts films produced across a range of national and transnational contexts. Lisa Funnell examines the impact of the 1997 transfer of Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule on the representation of Chinese identities—Hong Kong Chinese, mainland Chinese, Chinese American, Chinese Canadian—in action films produced domestically in Hong Kong and, increasingly, in cooperation with mainland China and Hollywood. Hong Kong cinema has offered space for the development of transnational Chinese screen identities that challenge the racial stereotypes historically associated with the Asian female body in the West. The ethnic/national differentiation of transnational Chinese female stars—such as Pei Pei Cheng, Charlene Choi, Gong Li, Lucy Liu, Shu Qi, Michelle Yeoh, and Zhang Ziyi—is considered part of the ongoing negotiation of social, cultural, and geopolitical identities in the Chinese-speaking world.
The Cinema of Hong Kong
Author: Poshek FuPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521776028
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This volume examines Hong Kong cinema in transnational, historical, and artistic contexts.
Asian Cinema
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asians in motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
The Motion Picture Guide
Author: Jay Robert NashPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
TLA Video & DVD Guide 2004
Author: David BleilerPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312316860
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 801
Book Description
This is the absolutely indispensable guide to worthwhile cinema. It includes over 10,000 entries on the best of film and video that a real film lover might actually want to see.
The Hong Kong Filmography, 1977-1997
Author: John CharlesPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147660262X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Thanks to the successes of directors and actors like John Woo, Jackie Chan, and Chow Yun-Fat, the cinema of Hong Kong is wildly popular worldwide, and there is much more to this diverse film culture than most Western audiences realize. Beyond martial arts and comedy, Hong Kong films are a celebration of the grand diversity and pageantry of moviemaking--covering action, comedy, horror, eroticism, mythology, historical drama, modern romances, and experimental films. Information on 1,100 films produced in British Hong Kong from 1977 to 1997 is included here.