(Library ebook) Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: The Wuxia Tradition (Traditions in World Cinema)
❀ Stephen Teo ❀
| #1978822 in Books | Edinburgh University Press | 2009-05-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x1.00 x6.14l,.85 | File Name: 0748632867 | 256 pages |
||8 of 16 people found the following review helpful.| useful but pedantic|By J. Cole|This book has a lot of useful information but the author is a bit of a pedantic blowhard who goes on and on, repeats himself too much and uses forms of names not in common usage, such as calling Chang Cheh Zhang Che, a form of his name I never encountered in hundreds of references and it took me severeal pages to realize who he was talking about||An unprecedented English language resource for those interested in the history of the genre, particularly its roots in literature and the lost films that can only be researched obliquely through reviews and articles written by people who have seen them. I'd r
The traditional martial arts genre known as wuxia (literally "martial chivalry") became popular the world over through the phenomenal hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). This book unveils the rich layers of the wuxia tradition as it developed in the early Shanghai cinema of the late 1920s and in the Hong Kong and Taiwan film industries of the 1950s and beyond. Stephen Teo follows the tradition from its beginnings in Shanghai cinema to its rise as a ser...
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