Download e-book for kindle: Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema (Historical by Lisa Odham Stokes

regardless of the being shutdown through global wars, having its martial arts movies dismissively classified as 'chopsocky,' and working on shoestring budgets, the movies of Hong Kong were praised and imitated around the world. From its starting in 1909 with the silent brief Stealing the Roast Duck to the martial arts vintage input the Dragon (1973) to Peter Chan's possibly Love (2005), a reinvention of chinese language musicals through Hollywood, the massive cinema of Hong Kong has regularly reinvented itself. Stars equivalent to Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, and Jet Li became family names, and actors like Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Stephen Chiau, Michelle Yeoh, and Chow Yun-fat proceed to realize repute in the course of the international. And the effect of administrators like Ang Lee, Tsui Hark, Wong Kar-wai, and John Woo might be visible approximately in all places in Hollywood. The historic Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema offers crucial proof and descriptive assessment touching on Hong Kong filmmaking and its filmmaking group. this can be finished by using a chronology, an inventory of acronyms and abbreviations, an introductory essay, illustrations of people and movie stills, a bibliography, and thousands of cross-referenced dictionary entries on administrators, manufacturers, writers, actors, motion pictures, movie businesses, genres, and terminology. Having perused this, readers won't basically comprehend significantly extra a couple of particularly impressive position, they are going to have a nearly palpable feeling for the way it works.