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
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780809330218; 9780809386208
Subjects: History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Martial arts films
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : cosmopolitical consciousness and martial arts cinema; title: The martial arts cinema, the Chinese diaspora and Hollywood; title: Ang Lee's Crouching tiger, hidden dragon gender, ethnicity, and transnationalism; title: Facing off east and west in the cinema of John Woo; title: Jackie Chan'  and the politics of comic displacement; title: Conclusion: cosmopolitical thinking.