More Sex, Better Zen, Faster Bullets: The Encyclopedia of Hong Kong Film - Couverture souple

Hammond, Stefan; Wilkins, Mike

 
9781909394643: More Sex, Better Zen, Faster Bullets: The Encyclopedia of Hong Kong Film
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1909394645 ISBN 13 : 9781909394643
Editeur : Headpress, 2020

Synopsis

How and why did films from Hong Kong - a former British Crown Colony and map-speck - become so popular? Post-WWII, creative freedom was scarce in Asia, but Hong Kong was a safe space for filmmakers seeking to profit from overseas Chinese markets and Chinatowns worldwide. Both Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest set up massive operations in Hong Kong and let the celluloid slip.

By the 1980s, Hong Kong's Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan were famous throughout Asia. Their winning formula of humour and martial arts prowess ripped through kung fu stereotypes, while filmmakers like Tsui Hark and Ringo Lam served up fantasy, horror and noir crime dramas for rabid cinemagoing hordes in the grindhouses of Kowloon. It was a glorious time.

This book is the nonpareil true story of the Hong Kong film industry, one that doesn't skimp on the good bits: the hyperkinetic films themselves. Included are intrepid firsthand accounts of the culture and international fanbases to have emerged around these movies.

More Sex, Better Zen, Faster Bullets contains the best bits of Sex and Zen & A Bullet in the Head (1996) and Hollywood East (2000) - the two best known tomes on Hong Kong films of the twentieth century - revised and with the inclusion of new material. The result is the most comprehensive encyclopedia of Hong Kong film available anywhere.
Foreword by Jackie Chan. Preface by Michelle Yeoh.

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À propos de l?auteur

Stefan Hammond is co-author (with Mike Wilkins) of Sex and Zen & A Bullet in The Head, and author of Hollywood East: Hong Kong Films and the People Who Make Them. He lives in Hong Kong.

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Éditeur
Headpress
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1909394645
ISBN 13 
9781909394643
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
34
Coordonnées du fabricant
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