Director in Action: Johnnie To and the Hong Kong Action Film - Softcover

Teo, Stephen

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9789622098404: Director in Action: Johnnie To and the Hong Kong Action Film

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ISBN 10: 9622098401 ISBN 13: 9789622098404

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press, 2007

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The book provides a comprehensive overview of To's career as a director of action films.

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From the Publisher:

"Johnnie To is one of the finest filmmakers working in the world today, and Stephen Teo situates his distinctive achievement within the wider context of Hong Kong politics, culture, and film production. Indepth analyses of To's films gain resonance from Teo's survey of the wider history of Hong Kong and its genre cinema. This, the first book-length study in English of To's work, is very likely to remain the best. It confirms Stephen Teo's stature as one of the foremost historians and critics of Chinese -language filmmaking." - David Bordwell, University of Wisconsin-Madison

About the Author:

Stephen Teo is currently a research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and a senior associate of RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. His latest work is King Hu's A Touch of Zen (Hong Kong University Press, 2007).

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