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Author: Barry Long
Publisher: Miramax Books
Published: 1998-11-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780786883592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the Hong Kong film market chronicles its history and worldwide influence, profiling its most important films and figures while providing photographs, filmographies, and a video guide.
Author: Jules Brown
Publisher: Rough Guides
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781858288727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis resource includes full details of Hong Kong harbour, its shopping and nightlife districts, traditional sites and off-the-beaten track areas of the New Territories and outlying islands. A history and a cultural guide is included, as well as places to eat, drink and sleep on every budget. Background information on post-handover politics and features on festivals, feng shui and Chinese astrology are also included.
Author: Lisa Odham Stokes
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781859847169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHong Kong's film industry gained global attention in the 1980s, at the time of negotiations over Great Britain's return of the colony to China. 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.' In this accessible introduction to the extraordinary cinematic output of the colony, Michael Hoover and Lisa Stokes review the directors and films that have established Hong Kong cinema internationally: John Woo's martial arts flicks, Tsui Hark's wire-worked fantasies, Ann Hui's exile melodramas, Stanley Kwan's limpid romances, and Wong Kar-wai's stylish art films.
Author: Joseph P. Farrell
Publisher: Feral House
Published: 2010-06-01
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1932595856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this latest installment of his remarkable series of books of alternative science and history, Joseph P. Farrell outlines the consistent pattern and strategy of bankers in ancient and modern times, and their desire to suppress the public development of alternative physics and energy technologies, usurp the money creating and issuing power of the state, and substitute a facsimile of money-as-debt. Here, Farrell peels back the layers of deception to reveal the possible deep physics that the “banksters” have used to aid them in their financial policies. Feral House also published Farrell’s Philosopher’s Stone: Alchemy and the Secret Research for Exotic Matter.
Author: Lisa Morton
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-04-25
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0786451521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTsui Hark, one of China's most famous film artists, is little known outside of Asia even though he has directed, produced, written, or acted in dozens of film, some of which are considered to be classics of modern Asian cinema. This work begins with a biography of the man and a look at his place in Hong Kong and world cinema, his influences, and his thematic obsessions. Each major film of his career is then reviewed, production details are provided, and comments from Tsui Hark himself are given.
Author: Michael Curtin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2007-08-02
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0520251342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDelineates the globalizing pressures and opportunities that have dramatically transformed the terrain of Chinese film and television, including the end of the cold war, the rise of the World Trade Organization, and the escalation of democracy movements. This book examines the prospect of a global Chinese audience.
Author: Shilpa Dave
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2005-05
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 0814719627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom henna tattoo kits available at your local mall to ofaux Asiano fashions, housewares and fusion cuisine; from the new visibility of Asian film, music, video games and anime to the current popularity of martial arts motifs in hip hop, Asian influences have thoroughly saturated the U.S. cultural landscape and have now become an integral part of the vernacular of popular culture.
Author: Lúcia Nagib
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-11-30
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0857721046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative book is about the place of world cinema in the cultural imaginary. It also repositions world cinema in a wider discursive space than is usually the case and treats it as an object of theoretical enquiry, rather than as a commercial label. The editors and distinguished group of contributors offer a range of approaches and case studies whose organizing principle is the developing idea of polycentrism as applied to cinema. They refine and redefine key concepts in film studies, including identification and identity, narrative and realism, allegory and the national project, auteurism and the popular, art and genre. They re-evaluate how cinema shapes and responds to the philosophical, cultural and political effects of transnationalism and cosmopolitanism in the age of the moving image, and explore the interconnectedness of films produced worldwide, as well as the links between cinema and other visual cultural forms. The contributors include: John Caughie, Felicia Chan, Tiago de Luca, Rajinder Dudrah, Song Hwee Lim, Laura Mulvey, Lucia Nagib, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Chris Perriam, Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Julian Smith, and Ismail Xavier.
Author: Lawrence Anthony
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2007-03-06
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0312358326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe amazing story of the soldiers, conservationists, and ordinary Iraqis who united to save the animals of the Baghdad Zoo
Author: Michael Berry
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9780231133319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterviews with Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and other Chinese directors about their work & the ways it has impacted both on the film industry in China as well as on the world scene.
