John Woos The Killer

Author : Kenneth E. HALL
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622099564
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Woo's The Killer written by Kenneth E. HALL and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has the creative period of the New Hong Kong Cinema now come to an end? However we answer this question, there is a need to evaluate the achievements of Hong Kong cinema. This series distinguishes itself from the other books on the subject by focusing in-depth on individual Hong Kong films, which together make the New Hong Kong cinema.

Author : Kenneth E. Hall
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786488298
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Woo written by Kenneth E. Hall and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of John Woo: The Films (McFarland, 1999) was the earliest English-language volume to address the motion picture output of the celebrated Hong Kong director. The book dealt with Woo's film career from his professional beginnings in 1968 through his first three Hollywood releases (Hard Target, Broken Arrow and Face/Off), situating his work within Asian and Western cinematic and cultural traditions. This second edition offers a wealth of additional information, including treatment of John Woo's Hollywood productions Mission: Impossible II, Windtalkers and Paycheck. Also featured is material on Woo's epic Red Cliff, filmed in China. A new foreword is provided by Tony Williams, author of John Woo's Bullet in the Head. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : John Woo
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578067763
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Woo written by John Woo and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first authoritative English-language collection of interviews with the respected filmmaker who reinvented the modern action movie and helped open the door for fellow Asian filmmakers to the Western world.

Author : Christopher Heard
Publisher : Lone Eagle Publishing Company, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ten Thousand Bullets written by Christopher Heard and published by Lone Eagle Publishing Company, LLC. This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cinematic history of Hollywood's hottest action film director ("Face Off, Broken Arrow")--from s the subject of this fascinating his early life in the violent slums of Hong Kong to his U.S. breakthrough.

Author : Karen Fang
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622096522
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Woo's A Better Tomorrow written by Karen Fang and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Better Tomorrow has always been hailed as a milestone in Hong Kong cinema. This book describes the different responses to the movie in Hong Kong and later in its reception worldwide, which paved the way for the promotion of John Woo and Chow Yun-fat to their current prominence in Hollywood. Fang examines the different notions of the genre of action cinema in Asian and Western film industries. She tracks the connections between ying shung pian, or "hero" movie, the term by which Woo's film became famous in Hong Kong, and the spectacle of violence emphasized in the term "heroic bloodshed," the category in which the film was known in the West. Finally, she concludes with a discussion of the status of the film and its huge success in the current globalized industry.

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 : Cynthia Baron
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814330791
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Than a Method written by Cynthia Baron and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insightful, focused case studies of screen performance from diverse directors with a range of contemporary styles and approaches.

Author : David Bordwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674002135
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planet Hong Kong written by David Bordwell and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive study of Hong Kong cinema examines the work of directors such as Tsui Hark, John Woo, Ringo Lam, Johnnie To, King Hu, and Wong Kar Wai.

Author : Robert K. Elder
Publisher : Zephyr Press
ISBN 13 : 1569768382
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best Film You've Never Seen written by Robert K. Elder and published by Zephyr Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-five directors reveal which overlooked or critically savaged films they believe deserve a larger audience while offering advice on how to watch each film.

Author : Lisa Odham Stokes
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859842034
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City on Fire written by Lisa Odham Stokes and published by Verso. This book was released on 1999-09-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncertainty about the post-handover era accelerated Hong Kong's race for economic growth, and found expression in cinema's depictions of a city on fire. This book reviews the directors and films that have established Hong Kong's cinema's reputation.