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The Cinema of Stephen Chow

Beschreibung

"The Cinema of Stephen Chow provides an in depth look into Stephen Chow's stardom and authorship from a diverse range of critical perspectives. Each of the essays, written by a host of renowned international scholars, offers compelling new interpretations of familiar hits such as Shaolin Soccer (2001), Kung Fu Hustle (2004), From Beijing with Love (1994) and Journey To the West (2013). The detailed case studies of seminal local and global hits provide overdue critical attention to Chow's filmmaking, highlighting the aesthetic power, economic significance and cultural impact of his films in both domestic and global markets"--

Autor

Gary Bettinson is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Lancaster University, UK. He is author of The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai (2015). He is co-editor (with James Udden) of The Poetics of Chinese Cinema (2016), and (with Daniel Martin) of Hong Kong Horror Cinema (2018). He is chief editor of the journal Asian Cinema. Vivian P.Y. Lee is Associate Professor of Chinese and History at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. She is author of The Other Side of Glamour: The Left-wing Studio Network in Hong Kong Cinema in the Cold War Era and Beyond (2020) and Hong Kong Cinema since 1997: the Post-nostalgic Imagination (2009). She is editor of East Asian Cinemas: Regional Flows and Global Transformations (2011).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350362178
• ISBN-10: 1350362174
• Artikelnr.: 74246479