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Chinese martial arts cinema : the Wuxia tradition
Teo, Stephen, author.
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
A study of the Chinese martial arts film focusing on the wuxia (martial chivalry) genre from its beginnings in the Shanghai cinema of the late 1920s to Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Zhang Yimou's Hero (2002) and House of Flying Daggers (2004).
Bibliographic Information
| Format: | eBook |
|---|---|
| Author: | Teo, Stephen, |
| Subject: |
Martial arts films Martial arts |
| Publication Year: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016] |
| ISBN: | 9781474400091 1474400094 9781785397707 1785397702 9781474403887 1474403883 1-4744-0009-4 1-78539-770-2 1-4744-0388-3 |
| Series: | Traditions in World Cinema |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 12, 2016). Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Traditions in World Cinema -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1. Wuxia from Literature to Cinema -- 2. Reactions against the Wuxia Genre -- 3. The Rise of Kung Fu, from Wong Fei-hung to Bruce Lee -- 4. The Rise of New School Wuxia -- 5. The Wuxia Films of King Hu -- 6. Wuxia after A Touch of Zen -- 7. Wuxia between Nationalism and Transnationalism -- 8. Wuxia and Kung Fu in the Blockbuster Era -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index Issued also in print. |
| Course: |
GEA204 |