Description
Product ID: | 9781474400084 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Chinese Martial Arts Cinema |
Subtitle: | The Wuxia Tradition |
Authors: | Author: Stephen Teo |
Page Count: | 240 |
Subjects: | Films, cinema, Films, cinema, Media studies, Media studies |
Description: | Select Guide Rating This is the fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema known as wuxia. The book unveils rich layers of the wuxia tradition as it developed in early Shanghai cinema in the late 1920s, and from the 1950s onwards, in the Hong Kong and Taiwan film industries. |
Imprint Name: | Edinburgh University Press |
Publisher Name: | Edinburgh University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2015-11-30 |