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The martial arts cinema of the Chinese diaspora

Szeto, Kin-Yan, 1971-

The martial arts cinema of the Chinese diaspora Ang Lee, John Woo, and Jackie Chan in Hollywood / [electronic resource] : Kin-Yan Szeto. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (208 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : cosmopolitical consciousness and martial arts cinema -- The martial arts cinema of the Chinese diaspora and Hollywood -- Ang Lee's Crouching tiger, hidden dragon in a cosmopolitical perspective -- Facing off east and west in the cinema of John Woo -- Jackie Chan's transnational film trajectory and politics of comic displacement -- Conclusion.

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Cheng, Long, 1954- --Criticism and interpretation.
Woo, John, 1948- --Criticism and interpretation.
Lee, Ang, 1954- --Criticism and interpretation.


Martial arts films--History and criticism.--United States


Electronic books.

PN1995.9.H3 / S94 2011

791.43/657