New Essential Guide To Hong Kong Movies

Author : Rick Baker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1648210171
Total Pages : 805 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Essential Guide to Hong Kong Movies written by Rick Baker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensively revised and expanded, The New Essential Guide to Hong Kong Movies includes over 670 film reviews, a poster gallery, and a look at the key studios that made Hong Kong cinema so amazing, along with insights into the Hong Kong movie industry written by global superstar Jackie Chan and Hong Kong film stars Cynthia Rothrock, and Vincent Lyn. Rick Baker and Ken Miller have curated a huge selection of reviews of kung fu and swordplay films, gangster flicks, crime dramas, action, horror, fantasy, erotic, and assorted Category III films, sharing their love for these distinctive, kinetic, and sometimes utterly bizarre Hong Kong genre productions with an infectious enthusiasm.

Author : Rick Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899252008
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Guide to Hong Kong Movies written by Rick Baker and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stefan Hammond
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684803410
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex and Zen & A Bullet in the Head written by Stefan Hammond and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including reviews of 200 films, plus information about U.S. theaters, video stores, and mail-order sources that specialize in this white-hot, new genre, this is the first guide to an exploding popular culture phenomenon. Includes 75 photos.

Author : Poshek Fu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521776028
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cinema of Hong Kong written by Poshek Fu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-25 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines Hong Kong cinema in transnational, historical, and artistic contexts.

Author : Jeff Yang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743448178
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Once Upon a Time in China written by Jeff Yang and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jackie Chan to Ang Lee, from "Supercop" to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," Chinese cinema has truly arrived in the U.S. Filled with photos and tidbits, this is the definitive book for anyone who has already fallen in love with Chinese cinema--and all those who are looking to learn more about it.

Author : Lisa Morton
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786451521
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cinema of Tsui Hark written by Lisa Morton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tsui Hark, one of China's most famous film artists, is little known outside of Asia even though he has directed, produced, written, or acted in dozens of film, some of which are considered to be classics of modern Asian cinema. This work begins with a biography of the man and a look at his place in Hong Kong and world cinema, his influences, and his thematic obsessions. Each major film of his career is then reviewed, production details are provided, and comments from Tsui Hark himself are given.

Author : Ching-Mei Esther Yau
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816632343
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At Full Speed written by Ching-Mei Esther Yau and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Paul B. McGuinness
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to the Equity Markets of Hong Kong written by Paul B. McGuinness and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the structure and outline of Hong Kong's equity markets, and examines Hong Kong's rising prominence (ranked sixth largest in the world) and importance as a financial centre in the region. It details the workings of the equity market system, covering the basics of all themajor derivatives, and gives a brief overview of its other regional contemporary markets. Hong Kong's equity market has changed beyond all recognition over the last decade. The rise of China and East Asia has fuelled tremendous growth in this market. In the last two years alone, the marketcapitalisation of stocks traded in The Stock exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK) has grown by almost 100%. This growth, reflecting both the appreciation of existing stock values and a flood of new listing, is expected to continue as the PRC develops in to a world economic power. The rising volumes oftrading and recent flurry of 'H' share listings and other PRC-backed stocks, is also indicative of the PRC's commitment to establish Hong Kong as the centre of its financial system. Hong Kong's mantle as the financial

Author : Lisa Odham Stokes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538120623
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema written by Lisa Odham Stokes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong cinema began attracting international attention in the 1980s. By the early 1990s, Hong Kong had become "Hollywood East" as its film industry rose to first in the world in per capita production, was ranked second to the United States in the number of films it exported, and stood third in the world in the number of films produced per year behind the United States and India. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on directors, producers, writers, actors, films, film companies, genres, and terminology. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Hong Kong cinema.

Author : Lucy Fischer
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415278935
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stars written by Lucy Fischer and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From two distinguished academics, this book includes contributions from top scholars such as Richard Dyer, and brings together key writings and new perspectives on stars and stardom in cinema across the world.