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Once A Hero: The Vanishing Hong Kong Cinema

Perry Lam

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Description:Widely quoted by the international press including Reuters, The Associated Press, and Cahiers du Cinéma, Perry Lam has long been recognized as an authority on Hong Kong cinema. From 2006-10, he was editorial director of Muse magazine, and taught Asian cinema as adjunct professor of Syracuse University Hong Kong Center. He is now Editorial director assistant of Oxford University Press and writes columns in Chinese for Hong Kong Economic Journal and Yazhou Zhoukan. Once A Hero: The Vanishing Hong Kong Cinema is his first English book.In Once A Hero, his latest collection of essays, Lam describes the decline of Hong Kong cinema since 1997 and gives an eyewitness account of its attempt to reinvent itself. He examines successes and failures of famous auteurs; spotlights talented newcomers seeking to inject new life into cinema; and, with the future of Hong Kong cinema now bound up with the mainland, discusses the works of major Chinese filmmakers.From the Book:“The real story about Hong Kong films isn’t the dramatic decline in their creativity, or power to draw people to theaters. It is the surgical removal of their distinctiveness as movies of Hong Kong. In their eagerness to please the mainland audience, Hong Kong filmmakers now churn out movies with ready-made plots, powered by simple demographics. I smell more desperation than inspiration in the race to make the Hong Kong cinema mainland-friendly.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Once A Hero: The Vanishing Hong Kong Cinema. To get started finding Once A Hero: The Vanishing Hong Kong Cinema, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 176

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: East Slope Publishing Limited

Release: 2011

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Description: Widely quoted by the international press including Reuters, The Associated Press, and Cahiers du Cinéma, Perry Lam has long been recognized as an authority on Hong Kong cinema. From 2006-10, he was editorial director of Muse magazine, and taught Asian cinema as adjunct professor of Syracuse University Hong Kong Center. He is now Editorial director assistant of Oxford University Press and writes columns in Chinese for Hong Kong Economic Journal and Yazhou Zhoukan. Once A Hero: The Vanishing Hong Kong Cinema is his first English book.In Once A Hero, his latest collection of essays, Lam describes the decline of Hong Kong cinema since 1997 and gives an eyewitness account of its attempt to reinvent itself. He examines successes and failures of famous auteurs; spotlights talented newcomers seeking to inject new life into cinema; and, with the future of Hong Kong cinema now bound up with the mainland, discusses the works of major Chinese filmmakers.From the Book:“The real story about Hong Kong films isn’t the dramatic decline in their creativity, or power to draw people to theaters. It is the surgical removal of their distinctiveness as movies of Hong Kong. In their eagerness to please the mainland audience, Hong Kong filmmakers now churn out movies with ready-made plots, powered by simple demographics. I smell more desperation than inspiration in the race to make the Hong Kong cinema mainland-friendly.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Once A Hero: The Vanishing Hong Kong Cinema. To get started finding Once A Hero: The Vanishing Hong Kong Cinema, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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