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Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema
eBook - Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
ISBN/EAN: 9781538120620
Umbreit-Nr.: 792351
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 652 S.
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 15.01.2020
Auflage: 2/2020
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- Zusatztext
- <span>Hong Kong cinema began attracting international attention in the 1980s. By the early 1990s, Hong Kong had become "Hollywood East" as its film industry rose to first in the world in per capita production, was ranked second to the United States in the number of films it exported, and stood third in the world in the number of films produced per year behind the United States and India.</span><br><br><br><br><span>This second edition of H</span><span>istorical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema</span><span>contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on directors, producers, writers, actors, films, film companies, genres, and terminology. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Hong Kong cinema.</span>
- Kurztext
- <p><span> </span><span>Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema, Second Edition </span><span>contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on directors, producers, writers, actors, films, film companies, genres, and terminology. </span></p>
- Autorenportrait
- <span>Lisa Odham Stokes</span><span> is Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Film Studies at Seminole State College in Central Florida, US; in an inter-disciplinary field, her study and publications have been inter-disciplinary. She is co-author (with Michael Hoover) of</span><span> City on Fire: Hong Kong</span><span>Cinema</span><span>(1999; rpt. 2001) and author of Peter Ho-Sun Chans </span><span>Hes a Woman, Shes a Man</span><span> (2009). She has travelled extensively in China and Hong Kong, presenting papers at film conferences, and she has published numerous articles on film, literature and popular culture with a special interest in Chinese cinemas. She has been part of the selection process for the Florida Film Festival for more than 20 years. Her novel</span><span>Catz, A Love Story</span><span> appears under the pseudonym Lisa Tyler.</span><br><br><br><br><span>Rachel Braaten</span><span>is a Humanities and Film Studies professor at Seminole State College of Florida. In addition to teaching, she has worked on the production side of the film and television industries, and has been a programmer for the Florida Film Festival, serving on the international features and documentary film committees. Her travels to Hong Kong, have inspired her teaching and writing about the Hong Kong Cinema film genre.</span><br><br><br><br><span>Contributors</span><span>: Albert Valentin, Jean Lukitsh. Michael Hoover, and Tyler Stokes</span>