Hong Kong cinema

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Hong Kong cinema

• Michael Curtin
• Industrial analysis
• Shaw Brothers TVB
• Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan, dir.
  Chu Yuan, 1972
• Golden Harvest
• Wins
• Vertical vs. horizontal industry

• Chu Yiu Wai
• Concept of nationalism/nation
• Cultural Studies
• Michael Hui The Private Eyes, 1976
• Tsui Hark Once Upon a Time in China series,
  1991-97

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Hong Kong

• Tsui Hark
• Swodsman
• Once Upon a Time in China
• Peking Opera Blues
• Shanghai Blues
• The Blade
• John Woo
• Killer
• Bullet in the Head
• A Better Tomorrow
• Hardboiled
• Face/Off
• Mission Impossible II

• Cathay
• Film Workshop - Tsui Hark
• Cinema City - Raymond Wong
• Milkyway Image - Johnnie To Wai Ka Fai

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• Check also these directors films
• Zhang Che
• Chu Yuan
• Liu Chia-liang/Lau Kar Leong
• Bruce Lee films
• Jackie Chan
• Ching Siu-tung
• Stephen Chow
• Ann Hui
• Wong Kar-wai
• Ringo Lam
• Peter Chan
• Patrick Yau
• Fruit Chan
• Stanley Kwan
• Alan Mak the Internal Affairs -series
• The Young and Dangerous -series

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• David Bordwell
• Stylistic analysis
• historical poetics
• Working against/within constraints
• Filmmaking agents
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• Martial arts/wuxia/gongfu
• Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, dir. Lau Kar-leung,
  1983
• King Hu A Touch of Zen, 1969 (Taiwan)
• Tsui Hark Once Upon a Time in China, 1991
• Action/hero/triad genre
• John Woo Killer, 1991
• Johnnie To Mission, 1999

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Taiwanese cinema

• Japanese colony, Formosa
• 1949 Kuoming-tang gov.
• Febr. 28, 1947 incident, martial law until
• Central Motion Picture Corporation
• Literature modernists, nativists
• 1980s new cinema

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Ang Lee

• Wedding Banquet, 1993
• Eat Drink Man Woman, 1994
• Sense and Sensibility, 1995
• Ice Storm, 1997
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 2000
• Brokeback Mountain, 2005

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Edward Yang

• Urban professionals, beg. career contemporary
• That Day, On the Beach, 1983
• Terrorizers, 1986
• Fredric Jameson, Remapping Taipei
• A Brighter Summer Day, 1991
• A Confusian Confusion, 1994
• Mahjong, 1996
• Yi-Yi, 2000

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Tsai Ming-liang

• Non-melodramatic, one scene-one take, non-moving
  camera
• Use of same actors from film to film, esp. Lee
  Kang-sheng, Miao Tien
• Rebels of the Neon God, 1992
• Vive LAmour, 1994
• Father series The River, 1997 The Hole, 1998
• What Time is it There?, 2001
• Goodbye Dragon Inn, 2003
• The Wayward Cloud, 2005

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Hou Hsiao-hsien

• Long take, long shot
• Planimetric staging
• Blogging the actors within the cinematic space
• Lighting (chiaroscuro), colors, synch sound
• Real locations, many amateur actors, countryside,
  small towns, different languages
• Depth of space constructed through layers
• Ordinary people through Taiwanese history
• Restrained melodrama

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Hou Hsiao-hsien

• Cute Girl, 1980
• Green Green Grass of Home, 1981
• The Boys from Fengkuei, 1983
• Summer at Grandpas, 1984
• A Time to Live, A Time to Die, 1985
• Dust in the Wind, 1986
• A City of Sadness, 1989
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  ss/table.html
• Puppetmaster, 1993
• Good Men, Good Women, 1995
• Goodbye South, Goodbye, 1996
• Flowers of Shanghai, 1998
• Millennium Mambo, 2001
• Café Lumiere, 2003
• Three Times, 2005