Hong Kong Cinema: The Extra DimensionsCovering a period from 1909 to the end of Hong Kong cinema in the present day, this book features information about the films, the studios and the personalities that have shaped this kind of cinema. It includes studies of the films of King Hu, Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, as well as those of John Woo and the directors of the various New Waves. The book applies a bicultural (Chinese and Western) perspective and encompasses genres ranging from melodrama to martial arts, kung fu, fantasy and horror movies, as well as the international art-house successes. |
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... film industry from the early pre - war period right up to the 70s . ' The first Cantonese dialect film was an opera film , White Gold Dragon / Baijin Long ( 1933 ) , starring Sit Kok - sin , a famous Cantonese opera star of the period ...
... film industry from the early pre - war period right up to the 70s . ' The first Cantonese dialect film was an opera film , White Gold Dragon / Baijin Long ( 1933 ) , starring Sit Kok - sin , a famous Cantonese opera star of the period ...
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... film industry . Opera stars were routinely employed by film pro- ducers to double up as movie stars in non - opera films . Their popularity threatened to swamp legitimate screen actors , thus giving rise to the famous ' ling - xing ...
... film industry . Opera stars were routinely employed by film pro- ducers to double up as movie stars in non - opera films . Their popularity threatened to swamp legitimate screen actors , thus giving rise to the famous ' ling - xing ...
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... opera stars on the screen . A new generation of film audiences was chang- ing tastes and trends : in the 70s , martial arts kung fu films dominated the screen . CANTONESE REALISM The ' legitimate ' , non - opera , 50s Cantonese cinema ...
... opera stars on the screen . A new generation of film audiences was chang- ing tastes and trends : in the 70s , martial arts kung fu films dominated the screen . CANTONESE REALISM The ' legitimate ' , non - opera , 50s Cantonese cinema ...
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