Descript |
xxxiii, 488 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Contents |
Vernacular modernism and cinematic embodiment -- Worldly Shanghai, metropolitan spectators -- Teahouse, shadowplay, and Laborer's love -- Building a film world : distraction versus education -- Screenwriting, trick photography, and melodramatic retribution -- The anarchic body language of the martial arts film -- Fighting over the modern girl : hard and soft films -- Song at midnight : acoustic horror and the grotesque face of history. |
ISBN |
9780226982380 (pbk.) |
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9780226982373 (cloth) |
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0226982378 (cloth) |
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0226982386 (pbk.) |
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