Chinese martial arts cinema the Wuxia tradition
This updated edition is a comprehensive, fully researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema known as 'wuxia' (literal translation: martial chivalry); a genre which audiences around the world became familiar wi...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Press
2016
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| Ausgabe: | Second edition |
| Schriftenreihe: | Traditions in world cinema
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This updated edition is a comprehensive, fully researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema known as 'wuxia' (literal translation: martial chivalry); a genre which audiences around the world became familiar with through the phenomenal crossover hit 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'. The book unveils rich layers of the 'wuxia' tradition as it developed in the early Shanghai cinema in the late 1920s, and from the 1950s onwards, in the Hong Kong and Taiwan film industries |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-239), filmography, and index |
| Beschreibung: | xi, 257 Seiten 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781474403863 978-1-4744-0386-3 1474403867 1-4744-0386-7 9781474400084 978-1-4744-0008-4 1474400086 1-4744-0008-6 |