Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
Planet Hong Kong : popular cinema and the art of entertainment
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Physical
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- David Bordwell
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
-
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000
- Physical Details
-
- xii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780674002135, 067400213X, 9780674002142, 0674002148
- OCLC
- ocm42475641
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-319) and index.
- 1. All too Extravagant, too Gratuitously Wild. Hong Kong and/as/or Hollywood -- 2. Local Heroes. Two Dragons: Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan -- 3. The Chinese Connections -- 4. Once upon a Time in the West. Enough to Make Strong Men Weep: John Woo -- 5. Made in Hong Kong. A Chinese Feast: Tsui Hark -- 6. Formula, Form, and Norm. Whatever you Want: Wong Jing -- 7. Plots, Slack and Stretched -- 8. Motion Emotion: The Art of the Action Movie. Three Martial Masters: Zhang Che, Lau Kar-Leung, King Hu -- 9. Avant-Pop Cinema. Romance on your Menu: Chungking Express