Sex And Zen And a Bullet in The Head
More Sex, Better Zen, Faster Bullets: The Encyclopedia of Hong Kong Film eBooks & eLearning
Posted by First1 at Dec. 24, 2020
More Sex, Better Zen, Faster Bullets: The Encyclopedia of Hong Kong Film by Stefan Hammond, Mike Wilkins
English | July 11th, 2020 | ISBN: 1909394645 | 344 pages | True EPUB | 55.83 MB
English | July 11th, 2020 | ISBN: 1909394645 | 344 pages | True EPUB | 55.83 MB
How and why did films from Hong Kong ― a former British Crown Colony and map-speck ― become so popular? Post-WWII, creative freedom was scarce in Asia, but Hong Kong was a safe space for filmmakers seeking to profit from overseas Chinese markets and Chinatowns worldwide. Both Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest set up massive operations in Hong Kong and let the celluloid slip.