UID:
almahu_9947545693102882
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 230 p.).
ISBN:
9780748670833 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Traditions in world cinema
Content:
This account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema known as wuxia (literal translation: martial chivalry) - a genre which audiences around the world became familiar with through 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' (2000). The book unveils rich layers of the wuxia tradition as it developed in the early Shanghai cinema in the late 1920s, and from the 1950s onwards, in the Hong Kong and Taiwan film industries.
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780748632855
Language:
English
URL:
Edinburgh scholarship online
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9780748632510/type/BOOK