Eyeball Project
31 August 2000
June Wan
CITY ON FIRE: Hong Kong Cinema
By Lisa Odham Stokes
and Michael Hoover
Verso, 372 pages
A tour-de-force analysis of Hong Kong's film genres, including John
Woo's martial arts with automatic weapons flicks, Tsui Hark's
wire-worked fantasies, Ann Hui's exile melodramas, Stanley Kwan's limpid
romances, and Wong Kar Wai's stylish art films.
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