Chinese Martial Arts Cinema
Subtitle: The Wuxia Tradition (Traditions in World Cinema)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: May 15, 2009
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780748632862
Subjects: Entertainment -- Movies -- History & Criticism; Literature & Fiction -- Classics -- Chinese; Literature & Fiction -- History & Criticism -- Asian; Sports -- Individual Sports -- Martial Arts
Description: 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.