From Stage to Screen: The Legacy of Traditional Chinese Theatre in Chinese Martial Arts Cinema Soundtracks 9789811970375, 9789811970368, 9811970378

Chinese martial arts cinema is held to be a synthesis drawing on artistic conventions of traditional Chinese theatre. Fi

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English Pages 166 Year 2023

From Stage to Screen: The Legacy of Traditional Chinese Theatre in Chinese Martial Arts Cinema Soundtracks
9789811970375, 9789811970368, 9811970378

Chinese martial arts cinema is held to be a synthesis drawing on artistic conventions of traditional Chinese theatre. Fi

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This book traces the transformation of traditional Chinese theatre’s (xiqu) aesthetics during its encounters with Wester

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This book traces the transformation of traditional Chinese theatre’s (xiqu) aesthetics during its encounters with Wester

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Known in the West primarily through poorly subtitled films, Chinese martial arts fiction is one of the most iconic and y

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The present book features some introductory discussions on martial arts for the international audience and highlights in

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Provides reading material to meet the classroom needs of intermediate and advanced students of Chinese and also for the

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Shares twenty tales which present all the themes of Chinese fiction except that of the historical romance and the realis

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This is the first book-length study for nearly fifty years of the relations between early cinema and nineteenth-century

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The camera enables us to see right into a character’s soul, revealing their innermost thoughts and emotions. Screen acti

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"Written in clear and lucid style and ambitious both in scope and methodology, this book offers a fascinating windo

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