John Woos A Better Tomorrow PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download John Woos A Better Tomorrow PDF full book. Access full book title John Woos A Better Tomorrow.
Author | : Karen Fang |
Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9622096522 |
Download John Woo's A Better Tomorrow Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Better Tomorrow has always been hailed as a milestone in Hong Kong cinema. 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 to their current prominence in Hollywood. Fang examines the different notions of the genre of action cinema in Asian and Western film industries. She tracks the connections between ying shung pian, or "hero" movie, the term by which Woo's film became famous in Hong Kong, and the spectacle of violence emphasized in the term "heroic bloodshed," the category in which the film was known in the West. Finally, she concludes with a discussion of the status of the film and its huge success in the current globalized industry.
Author | : John Woo |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781578067763 |
Download John Woo Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first authoritative English-language collection of interviews with the respected filmmaker who reinvented the modern action movie and helped open the door for fellow Asian filmmakers to the Western world.
Author | : Kenneth E. Hall |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0786488298 |
Download John Woo Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first edition of John Woo: The Films (McFarland, 1999) was the earliest English-language volume to address the motion picture output of the celebrated Hong Kong director. The book dealt with Woo's film career from his professional beginnings in 1968 through his first three Hollywood releases (Hard Target, Broken Arrow and Face/Off), situating his work within Asian and Western cinematic and cultural traditions. This second edition offers a wealth of additional information, including treatment of John Woo's Hollywood productions Mission: Impossible II, Windtalkers and Paycheck. Also featured is material on Woo's epic Red Cliff, filmed in China. A new foreword is provided by Tony Williams, author of John Woo's Bullet in the Head. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author | : Kenneth E. HALL |
Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9622099564 |
Download John Woo's The Killer Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Tony Williams |
Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9622099688 |
Download John Woo's Bullet in the Head Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The film Bullet in the Head functions both as an apocalyptic melodrama and as an allegory of fears concerning the implications of the Tiananmen Square incident for Hong Kong residents. This book argues for its central importance as a major work of contemporary Hong Kong cinema.
Author | : Gina Marchetti |
Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2007-04-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789622098015 |
Download Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Infernal Affairs - The Trilogy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Infernal Affairs has received journalistic, popular and corporate notice but little vigorous critical attention. In this book, Gina Marchetti explores the way this example of Hong Kong's cinematic eclecticism has crossed borders as a story, a commercial product and a work of art; and has had an undeniable impact on current Hong Kong cinema. Moreover, she uses this trilogy to highlight the way Hong Kong cinema continues to be inextricably intertwined with global film culture and the transnational movie market. Infernal Affairs served as the source for the Academy Award-winning film The Departed (2006). The Martin Scorsese-directed film won Oscars for best motion picture, director, adapted screenplay and film editing. This is the first time that an American film based on a Hong Kong production swept the Academy Awards by winning four top prizes.
Author | : Christopher Heard |
Publisher | : Lone Eagle Publishing Company, LLC |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download Ten Thousand Bullets Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The cinematic history of Hollywood's hottest action film director ("Face Off, Broken Arrow")--from s the subject of this fascinating his early life in the violent slums of Hong Kong to his U.S. breakthrough.
Author | : Alison Peirse |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-03-14 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0748677658 |
Download Korean Horror Cinema Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
As the first detailed English-language book on the subject, Korean Horror Cinema introduces the cultural specificity of the genre to an international audience, from the iconic monsters of gothic horror, such as the wonhon (vengeful female ghost) and the gumiho (shapeshifting fox), to the avenging killers of Oldboy and Death Bell. Beginning in the 1960s with The Housemaid, it traces a path through the history of Korean horror, offering new interpretations of classic films, demarcating the shifting patterns of production and consumption across the decades, and introducing readers to films rarely seen and discussed outside of Korea. It explores the importance of folklore and myth on horror film narratives, the impact of political and social change upon the genre, and accounts for the transnational triumph of some of Korea's contemporary horror films. While covering some of the most successful recent films such as Thirst, A Tale of Two Sisters, and Phone, the collection also explores the obscure, the arcane and the little-known outside Korea, including detailed analyses of The Devil's Stairway, Woman's Wail and The Fox With Nine Tails. Its exploration and definition of the canon makes it an engaging and essential read for students and scholars in horror film studies and Korean Studies alike.
Author | : Yvonne Tasker |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780415189743 |
Download Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From Luc Besson to Quentin Tarantino, Fifty Contemporary Film-makers offers an up-to-date guide to the individuals who are shaping modern cinema.
Author | : John C.H. Wu |
Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2018-02-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0268103682 |
Download Beyond East and West Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When John C. H. Wu’s spiritual autobiography Beyond East and West was published in 1951, it became an instant Catholic best seller and was compared to Thomas Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain, which had appeared four years earlier. It was also hailed as the new Confession of St. Augustine for its moving description of Wu’s conversion in 1937 and early years as a Catholic. This new edition, including a foreward written by Wu’s son John Wu, Jr., makes this profoundly beautiful book by one of the most influential Chinese lay Catholic intellectuals of the twentieth century available for a new generation of readers hungry for spiritual sustenance. Beyond East and West recounts the story of Wu’s early life in Ningpo, China, his family and friendships, education and law career, drafting of the constitution of the Republic of China, translation of the Bible into classical Chinese in collaboration with Chinese president Chiang Kai-Shek, and his role as China’s delegate to the Holy See. In passages of arresting beauty, the book reveals the development of his thought and the progress of his growth toward love of God, arriving through experience at the conclusion that the wisdom in all of China’s traditions, especially Confucian thought, Taoism, and Buddhism, point to universal truths that come from, and are fulfilled in, Christ. In Beyond East and West, Wu develops a synthesis between Catholicism and the ancient culture of the Orient. A sublime expression of faith, here is a book for anyone who seeks the peace of the spirit, a memorable book whose ideas will linger long after its pages are closed.