Hollywood
East: Hong Kong Movies and the People Who Make Them
by Stefan Hammond, Michelle Yeoh
At
Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World
by Esther C.M. Yau (Editor), Esther C. M. Yau (Editor)
Book Description: An original and incisive account of one of
the world's most exciting cinemas.
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 expression in the thriving Hong Kong
cinema. All receive their due in At Full Speed, a volume that captures
the remarkable range and energy of a cinema that borrows, invents, and
reinvents across the boundaries of time, culture, and conventions.
At Full Speed gathers film scholars and critics from around the globe
to convey the transnational, multilayered character that Hong Kong films
acquire and impart as they circulate worldwide. These writers scrutinize
the films they find captivating: from the lesser known works of Law Man
and Yuen Woo Ping to such film festival notables as Stanley Kwan and Wong
Kar-wai, and from the commercial action, romance, and comedy genres of
Jackie Chan, Peter Chan, Steven Chiau, Tsui Hark, John Woo, and Derek Yee
to the attempted departures of Evans Chan, Ann Hui, and Clara Law.
In this cinema the contributors identify an aesthetics of action, gender-flexible
melodramatic excesses, objects of nostalgia, and globally projected local
history and identities, as well as an active critical film community. Their
work, the most incisive account ever given of one of the world's largest
film industries, brings the pleasures and idiosyncrasies of Hong Kong cinema
into clear close-up focus even as it enlarges on the relationships between
art and the market, cultural theory and the movies.
Contributors: Jinsoo An; David Bordwell, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Rey
Chow, Brown U; Steve Fore, City U of Hong Kong; Elaine Yee-Lin Ho, Hong
Kong U; Law Kar (Lau Yiu-kuen); Kwai-cheung Lo, Hong Kong Baptist U; Linda
Lai Chiu-han, City U of Hong Kong; Gina Marchetti, Ithaca College; Hector
Rodriquez, City U of Hong Kong; Bhaskar Sarkar, UC Santa Barbara; Mark
Siegel; and Stephen Teo.
Esther C. M. Yau is associate professor of film and new media at Occidental
College.
Paperback: 272 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.76 x
9.98 x 7.02
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; ; (June 2001)
ISBN: 0816632359
The
Hong Kong Filmography, 1977-1997 : A Complete Reference to 1,100 Films
Produced by British Hong Kong Studios
Book Description: Thanks to the recent successes of directors
and actors like John Woo, Jackie Chan, and Chow Yun-fat, the cinema of
Hong Kong is increasingly 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 movie-making-covering action, comedy, horror, eroticism,
mythology, historical drama, modern romances, and experimental films. Information
on...
Hardcover: 397 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.09 x
10.40 x 7.98
Publisher: McFarland & Company; ;
ISBN: 0786408421
The
Cinema of Hong Kong : History, Arts, Identity
Book Description: The Cinema of Hong Kong examines one of the
most popular and dynamic cinema traditions in the history of film. Providing
an overview of major directors, genres and stars, from its origins to the
present, this volume examines Hong Kong cinema in transnational, historical,
and artistic contexts. Individual essays focus on Hong Kong cinema before
and during World War II; the cinema of the turbulent 1960s; its rise to
world prominence in the 1970s and its reception in the United States, and
the revival of Cantonese cinema, among other topics.
Hardcover: 333 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.05 x
9.33 x 6.41
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; ; (July 2000)
ISBN: 0521772354
City
on Fire: Hong Kong Cinema
by Lisa Odham Stokes, Michael Hoover
Paperback: 372 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x
8.00 x 7.75
Publisher: Verso Books; ; Illustrated edition (September
1999)
ISBN: 1859842038
Planet
Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment
by David Bordwell
Paperback from Harvard Univ Pr
Book Published: 15 May, 2000
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