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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press,
Ã2016.
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Series: | New Hong Kong cinema.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.