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John Woo's The killer
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ISBN: 9789622099562 9622099564 9786612709081 9888052462 988220709X 1282709089 9789888052462 Year: 2009 Publisher: Hong Kong London Hong Kong University Press Eurospan [distributor]

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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.

John Woo's A better tomorrow
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ISBN: 9622096522 9786612709654 988805337X 1282709658 9789888053377 9781282709652 9789622096523 6612709650 Year: 2004 Publisher: Hong Kong : London : Hong Kong University Press ; Eurospan,

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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 totheir current prominence in Hollywood.


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The martial arts cinema of the Chinese diaspora
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ISBN: 9780809330218 9780809386208 0809386208 1280697016 9781280697012 0809330210 9786613673978 6613673978 Year: 2011 Publisher: Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press

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In The Martial Arts Cinema of the Chinese Diaspora, Kin-Yan Szeto critically examines three of the most internationally famous martial arts film artists to arise out of the Chinese diaspora and travel far from their homelands to find commercial success in the world at large: Ang Lee, John Woo, and Jackie Chan. Positing the idea that these filmmakers' success is evidence of a ""cosmopolitical awareness"" arising from their cross-cultural ideological engagements and geopolitical displacements, Szeto demonstrates how this unique perspective allows these three filmmakers to develop and

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