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The assassin : Hou Hsiao-hsien's world of Tang China.
The Assassin tells the story of a swordswoman who refrains from killing. Hou Hsiao-hsien astonishes his audience once again by upsetting almost every convention of the wuxia (martial arts) genre in the film. This collection offers eleven readings, each as original and thought-provoking as the film i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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HK :
Hong Kong University Press,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Illustrations; Character Chart; Chronicle of Major Events in the Film Story before the Film Begins; Map of the Tang after the An Lushan Rebellion (763); Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section 1: The Auteur Speaking and Auteurism Revisited; 1. The Screen Frame Is Only a Faintly Discernable Existence in the Real World; 2. To Kill or Not to Kill; Section 2: Literary and Film Adaptation and Editing; 3. The Assassin and Heibai Wei; 4. The Assassin as Adaptation and Transmedia Practice; Section 3: Sight and Sound; 5. Visuality and Music in The Assassin
- 6. The Three Ears of The Assassin7. Veiled Listening; 8. Sounding against the Grain; Section 4: Xia and Traditional Worldviews; 9. The Martial Arts of Nostalgia; 10. Ethics and Aesthetics in The Assassin; 11. The Something of Nothing; Appendix 1. Pei Xing, "Nie Yinniang"; Appendix 2. "Nie Yinniang"; Filmography; Works Cited; Contributors; Index