Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema

Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on directors, producers, writers, actors, films, film companies, genres, and terminology.

About the author

Rachel Braaten is a Humanities and Film Studies professor at Seminole State College of Florida. In addition to teaching, she has worked on the production side of the film and television industries, and has been a programmer for the Florida Film Festival, serving on the international features and documentary film committees. Her travels to Hong Kong, have inspired her teaching and writing about the Hong Kong Cinema film genre.

Lisa Odham Stokes is Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Film Studies at Seminole State College in Central Florida, US; in an inter-disciplinary field, her study and publications have been inter-disciplinary. She is co-author (with Michael Hoover) of City on Fire: Hong Kong Cinema (1999; rpt. 2001) and author of Peter Ho-Sun Chan's "He's a Woman, She's a Man" (2009). She has travelled extensively in China and Hong Kong, presenting papers at film conferences, and she has published numerous articles on film, literature and popular culture with a special interest in Chinese cinemas. She has been part of the selection process for the Florida Film Festival for more than 20 years. Her novel Catz, A Love Story appears under the pseudonym Lisa Tyler.

Summary

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on directors, producers, writers, actors, films, film companies, genres, and terminology.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Braaten, Rachel Stokes Braaten, Lisa Odham Stokes, Lisa Odham Braaten Stokes, Stokes Lisa Odham
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781538120613
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-2061-3
• No. of pages: 652
• Series: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts; Historical Dictionaries of Lit
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; REFERENCE / Dictionaries, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, Asia, Cantonese films, Chinese films, Chinese language, Film history, Film studies, Films, Hong Kong Cinema, Hong Kong films, Martial arts films, Women in film, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Dictionaries, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism