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Tsui Hark's "Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain"
Andrew Schroeder
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Description for Tsui Hark's "Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain"
Paperback. Hong Kong cinema exploded into world culture during the 1990s, driven by its linkage with Hollywood's dynamic new digital special effects technologies. This book provides historical background to those events by analysing the culture, political and technological network surrounding Tsui Hark's 'Zu: Warriors From the Magic Mountain'. Series: The New Hong Kong Cinema Series. Num Pages: 124 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 190 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 454.
Hong Kong cinema exploded into world culture during the 1990s, driven by its linkage with Hollywood's dynamic new digital special effects technologies. This book provides essential historical background to that remarkable set of events by analyzing the culture, political and technological network surrounding Tsui Hark's masterful but under-appreciated Zu: Warriors From the Magic Mountain. Schroeder examines how the film transformed Hong Kong action cinema from the 1980s to the present, which resulted in its rise as a dominant transnational style in close affiliation with the transformation of Hollywood cinema into a digital technology driven global enterprise.
Hong Kong cinema exploded into world culture during the 1990s, driven by its linkage with Hollywood's dynamic new digital special effects technologies. This book provides essential historical background to that remarkable set of events by analyzing the culture, political and technological network surrounding Tsui Hark's masterful but under-appreciated Zu: Warriors From the Magic Mountain. Schroeder examines how the film transformed Hong Kong action cinema from the 1980s to the present, which resulted in its rise as a dominant transnational style in close affiliation with the transformation of Hollywood cinema into a digital technology driven global enterprise.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Hong Kong University Press Hong Kong
Number of pages
124
Condition
New
Series
The New Hong Kong Cinema Series
Number of Pages
124
Place of Publication
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
ISBN
9789622096516
SKU
V9789622096516
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About Andrew Schroeder
Andrew Schroeder is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.
Reviews for Tsui Hark's "Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain"
This is a sophisticated, informative and theoretically challenging study of Tsui Hark's film. It is the first to offer an in-depth examination of the concrete implications of Tsui Hark as an innovator and modernizer of Hong Kong cinema. Most impressive is Schroeder's meticulous analysis of the technologies of transnationalism, using the film as an example of the triumph of a postmodern 'pastiche' aesthetic in Hong Kong cinema by systematically borrowing and remaking the decontextualized fragments of Hollywood's hardware and software.
Sasha Vojkovic, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Sasha Vojkovic, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology