The martial arts cinema of the Chinese diaspora
Subtitle: Ang Lee, John Woo, and Jackie Chan in Hollywood
By: Kin-Yan Szeto
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780809330218; 9780809386208
Subjects: History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Martial arts films
Description: Kin-Yan Szeto critically examines three of the most internationally famous martial arts film artists to arise out of the Chinese diaspora and travel far from their homelands to find commercial success in the world at large: Ang Lee, John Woo, and Jackie Chan. Positing the idea that these filmmakers' success is evidence of a "cosmopolitical awareness" arising from their cross-cultural ideological engagements and geopolitical displacements, Szeto demonstrates how this unique perspective allows these three filmmakers to develop and act in the transnational environment of media production, distribution, and consumption. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : cosmopolitical consciousness and martial arts cinema; title: The martial arts cinema of the Chinese diaspora and Hollywood; title: Ang Lee's Crouching tiger, hidden dragon in a cosmopolitical perspective; title: Facing off east and west in the cinema of John Woo; title: Jackie Chan's transnational film trajectory and politics of comic displacement; title: Conclusion.