An edition of The martial arts cinema of the Chinese diaspora (2011)
The martial arts cinema of the Chinese diaspora
Ang Lee, John Woo, and Jackie Chan in Hollywood
By Kin-Yan Szeto
Publish Date
2011
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Language
eng
Pages
171
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.