De-Heroicizing Heroic Bloodshed in Johnnie To's Election and Election 2

M Walters - Asian Cinema, 2010 - intellectdiscover.com
In 1986, John Woo's gangster classic A Better Tomorrow revised and revitalized the Hong
Kong triad genre in the tradition of heroic bloodshed. In the film, Mark (Chow Yun-Fat) and …

[PDF][PDF] Modernist aesthetics in the films of Wong Kar-wai

J Song - 2014 - scholars.hkbu.edu.hk
Wong Kar-wai is a premier avant-garde auteur of Hong Kong cinema. In the existing
research, postmodernism is considered as a predominant approach to shed light on Wong's …

[PDF][PDF] As ownership of Hong Kong changed hands from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China in 1997, citizens and filmmakers of the city became …

J Baldwin - 2006 - Citeseer
of Days of Being Wild (1991), In the Mood for Love (2000), and 2046 (2004) through
analyzing various story elements and details within the mise-en-scene. Story elements …