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Tsui Hark's Peking opera blues /

Part historical drama, part thriller, and part comedy, Tsui Hark's Peking Opera Blues (1986) invites--if not demands--examinations from multiple perspectives. Tan See Kam rises to the challenge in this study by first situating Tsui in a Sinophone context. The diasporic director explores differe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tan, See Kam, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, Ã2016.
Colección:New Hong Kong cinema.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : setting the scene
  • Act 1. Story and structure
  • Act 2. Warlords, history, and the democratic dream
  • Act 3. Shanghai and Peking blues : fiction as imagined history
  • Act 4. The shadowplay of attractions and painted faces
  • Act 5. Three-women fiction, mandarin ducks and butterflies
  • Postscript.