Search Catalogue

Call No: 730.3 TAS
Author: Tasker, Yvonne
Source: UK
Place: Abingdon, Oxon
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 414 p. ; 25 cm
Subject: ACTION FILMS; ADVENTURE FILMS; STARS; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; MELODRAMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; WAR FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS
Summary: Traces the history of the action genre from its silent era beginnings. Examines action’s definition and how it works as well as critical reaction to the genre. Considers the social and political context (national identity, culture, gender, class, race and ethnicity) extending beyond Hollywood to Greece, Italy and Japan. Themes include aesthetics, industry and ideology. Examines individual films and serials The Hazards of Helen, The Wild Bunch, Dirty Dozen, Die Hard, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and individual directors, including D.W. Griffith, Akira Kurosawa, Sam Peckinpah and Katherine Bigelow.
Notes: Includes note and index.
ISBN: 0 415 23507 3
Contents: Part 1. History, criticism and style -- 'Trauma thrills': notes on early action cinema -- The 'culture war' of sensational melodrama, 1910-14 -- 'Child of commerce! bastard of art!': early film melodrama -- Action-adventure as Hollywood genre -- 'Dwight MacDonald and the historical epic' -- Part 2. Theorising action aesthetics -- 'Get ready for rush hour': the chronotope in action -- The colapse of reality and illusion in "The matrix" -- Guns and gas: investigating the 1970s car chase -- "Saving Private Ryan's" 'special affect' -- Part 3. Gender, stars, bodies -- Ready for action: "G.I. Jane", Demi Moore's body and the female combat movie -- Mas Macha: the new Latina action hero -- Beauty in motion: gender, spectacle and action babe cinema -- "Breakdown": what masculinity, class and US action-adventure films -- Maximus melodramaticus: masculinity, masochism and white male paranoia in contemporary Hollywood cinema -- The family in action -- Part 4. Nation, ethnicity and stardom -- The Hong Kong/Hollywood connection: stardom and spectacle in transnational action cinema -- Europeans in action! -- Greek war film as melodrama: women, female stars, and the nation as vicim -- Spaghetti western, genre criticism and national cinema: re-defining the frame of reference -- Part 5. Action, authorship and industry -- Genre and violence in the work of Kurosawa and Peckinpah -- "The dirty dozen": the contradictory nature of screen violence -- 'It's aimed at kids - the kid in everybody': George Lucas, "Star wars" and children's entertainment -- Man's favourite sport?: the action films of Kathryn Bigelow -- 'They call me "action woman": the marketing of Mimi Leder as a new concept in the high concept 'action' film.

Call No: held no. 16. 1997-; -- IN STORAGE. OVERNIGHT RETRIEVAL
Source: US
Place: Miami, FL
Publisher: Vital Books
PubDate: [1993-]
Subject: ASIAN COUNTRIES; ASIANS IN FILMS; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; UNDERGROUND FILMS; CULT FILMS; CULT FILMS. ASIA
Notes: Formerly Asian Trash Cinema
ISSN: 07447091528740
Missing Issues: 13-15
Indexed In: BFI

Call No: held no.5, 8-12
Source: US
Place: Miami, FL
PubDate: 1993
Subject: ASIANS IN FILMS; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; UNDERGROUND FILMS; CULT FILMS. ASIA
Notes: Last issue no. 12. Continued by Asian Cult Cinema.
Language: English
Missing Issues: 1-4, 6-7
Indexed In: FIAF

Call No: 71(512.317) ATF
Author: Yau, Ching-Mei Esther
Source: US
Place: Minneapolis, Minn.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: 2001
PhysDes: vii, 342 p., ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: HONG KONG; TSUI, HARK; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; ACTION FILMS. HONG KONG; WONG KAR-WAI; CHAN, JACKIE; HUI, ANN; DIEXUE SHUANG XIONG (HK, John Woo [pseud. of Wu Yusen], 1989)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0816632359 (PB : alk. paper)
ID2: 291

Call No: 81CHA
CorpAuthor: Hong Kong Film Archive
Source: Hong Kong
Place: Hong Kong
Publisher: Hong Kong Film Archive
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 255 p ; 24 cm
Subject: CHANG, CHEH; HONG KONG; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS
Summary: The late director Chang Cheh (1924-2002) was a key advocator of the 'new century of wuxia' movement in the Hong Kong cinema. In the Memoir, Chang unveils to the readers his rarely known childhood, his aspired involvement in politics in his earlier years, and the hit trends he brought about in momentous phases of the Hong Kong cinema. The book contains precious stills and photos of the director at work, a complete filmography, and a preface written by director John Woo and renowned film critic Sek Kei as a tribute to the late master.
ISBN: 9628050265

Call No: 71(512.317) CUL
Author: Nguyet Erni, John
Edition: Volume 15; Number 3/4
Source: UK
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: July/October 2001
PhysDes: vi, 389-657 p. : 24cm.
Series: Cultural studies : Theorizing politics, politicizing theory
Subject: COLONIALISM AND THE CINEMA USE: IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; HONG KONG; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; THEORY
ISBN: 0415251699
ISSN: 09502386

Call No: 736.35 TEO
Author: Teo, Stephen
PhysDes: 262 p ; 29 cm
Subject: HONG KONG; TAIWAN; CHINESE IN FILMS; CHINA; GENRES; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; HU, KING; CHANG, CHEH
Summary: This dissertation is a history of the wuxia genre demonstrating how it has underpinned the development of three Chinese cinemas: Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taiwan. [Taken from thesis summary.]
Notes: PhD thesis

Call No: 64GEN DIX
Author: Dixon, Wheeler W., 1950
Place: Albany
Publisher: State University of New York Press
PubDate: c2000
PhysDes: vii, 266 p. ; 24 cm
Series: The SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video
Subject: GENRES; BLACKS, FILMS MADE BY. USA; ADAPTATIONS; MUSICALS; POLITICAL FILMS. USA; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; HORROR FILMS; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; YOUNG PEOPLE, FILMS FOR; CRIME FILMS; ACTION FILMS; CHILDREN, FILMS FOR; FILM NOIR; WESTERNS; ROMANTIC FILMS
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0791445135 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0791445143 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 20076491

Call No: 79HER GLO
Source: UK
Place: Oxon
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2010
PhysDes: xxvi, 226 p. ; 25 cm
Series: Routledge Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
Subject: ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; CHINA; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; LEUNG, TONY; YIMOU, ZHANG; YING XIONG (HK/C, Yimou Zhang, 2002); HERO (HK/C, Yimou Zhang, 2002)
ISBN: 97880415453158
Donation: donated by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, 2010
Contents: Changing discourse of national identities and heroism. The political narrative(s) of Hero / GARY D. RAWNSLEY Recycled heroes, invented tradition and transformed identity / YINGJIE GUO The emperor and the assassin: China's national Hero and the myth of state origins / YIYAN WANG The king, the musician and the village idiot: images of manhood / KAM LOUIE Transformations of cultural perception, genre and stardom. Twenty-first century women warriors: variations on a traditional theme / LOUISE EDWARDS On "Tian Xia (All under heaven)" in Zhang Yimou's Hero / XIZOMING CHEN and MING-YEH T. RAWNSLEY Hero: rewriting the Chinese martial arts film genre / HAIZHOU WANG AND MING-YEH T. RAWNSLEY "Would you rather spend more time making serious cinema?": Hero and Tony Leung's polysemic masculinity / MARK GALLAGHER Fifteen minutes of fame: transient/transnational female stardom in Hero / OLIVIA KHOO Local vs. global: deconstructing global Chinese blockbusters. Camp pleasure in an era of Chinese blockbusters: internet reception of Hero in mainland China / SABRINA QIONG YU North American reception of Zhang Yimou's Hero / WENDY LARSON Heroic music: from Hunan to Hollywood and back / KATY GOW Visual effects magic: Hero's Sydney connection / MARY FARQUHAR Towards a global blockbuster: the political economy of Hero's nationalism / ANTHONY FUNG AND JOSEPH M. CHAN.

Call No: 730.5 GRA
Author: Atkins, Thomas R., 1939
Place: New York
Publisher: Monarch Press
PubDate: c1976
PhysDes: viii, 96 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: VIOLENCE IN FILMS; FISHER, TERENCE; HORROR FILMS; WESTERNS. ITALY; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; FILM NOIR; TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE (US, Tobe Hooper, 1974)
Notes: Filmography: p. 95-96
ISBN: 0671081055 : $2.95
LON: 741452

Call No: 408.1(512.317) ABB
Author: Abbas, M. A. (M. Ackbar)
Place: Minneapolis
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: 1997
PhysDes: vii, 155 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Public worlds ; v. 2
Subject: HONG KONG; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. HONG KONG; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. HONG KONG; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; WONG KAR-WAI; KWAN, STANLEY; TSUI, HARK; HUI, ANN
Summary: The Culture of Hong Kong encompasses Jackie Chan and John Woo, British colonial architecture and postmodern skyscrapers. Ironically, it was not until they were faced with the imposition of Mainland power - with the signing of the Sino-British Joint Agreement in 1984 - that the denizens of the colony began the search for a Hong Kong identity. According to Abbas, Hong Kong's peculiar lack of identity is due to its status as "not so much a place as a space of transit," whose residents think of themselves as transients and migrants on their way from China to somewhere else. In this intriguing and provocative exploration of its cinema, architecture, photography, and literature, Ackbar Abbas considers what Hong Kong, with its unique relations to decolonization and disappearance, can teach us about the future of both the colonial city and the global city
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-150) and index
ISBN: 0816629242 (hard : alk. paper); 0816629250 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 12802637 12802637
ID2: 291

Call No: 736.35(512.317) LOG
Author: Logan, Bey
Place: London
Publisher: Titan Books
PubDate: 1995
PhysDes: 191 p. ; ill. (some col.) ; 28cm
Subject: HONG KONG; ACTION FILMS. HONG KONG; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS. HONG KONG; CHAN, JACKIE; WOO, JOHN [pseud. of Wu Yusen]; CHOW, YUN-FAT; LEE, BRUCE; LAU KAR LEUNG; HUNG, SAMO; CHENG PEI PEI; ROTHROCK, CYNTHIA; PENN, KIM MAREE; CRAWFORD, SOPHIA; ACES GO PLACES (HK, Tsang Chi Wai, 1982); LONG XIONG HU DI (HK, Jackie Chan [pseud. of Cheng Long], 1986); JINGCHA GUSHI (HK, Jackie Chan [pseud. of Cheng Long], 1985); [BIG BOSS, THE] (HK, Lo Wei, 1971); [FIST OF FURY] (HK, Lo Wei, 1972); LASHOU SHENTAN (HK, John Woo [pseud. of Wu Yusen], 1992); SINNUI YAUMAN (HK, Ching Siu Tung, 1987); CHINESE GHOST STORY, A (HK, Ching Siu Tung, 1987); [CITY ON FIRE] (HK, Ringo (Ling-Tung) Lam, 1987); [DRUNKEN MASTER, THE] (HK, Yuen Woo-Ping, 1978); [EASTERN CONDORS] (HK, Samo Hung, 1987); [PEDICAB DRIVER] (HK, Samo Hung, 1990); ENTER THE DRAGON (US/HK, Robert Clouse, 1973); WAY OF THE DRAGON, THE (HK, Bruce Lee, 1973); YINGXIONG BENSE (HK, John Woo [pseud. of Wu Yusen], 1986); [BULLET IN THE HEAD] (HK, John Woo [pseud. of Wu Yusen], 1990); DIEXUE SHUANG XIONG (HK, John Woo [pseud. of Wu Yusen], 1989)
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 188
ISBN: 1852865407 (pbk)
LON: 11245180

Call No: 175(512.317) HON
CorpAuthor: Hong Kong Film Archive
Place: Hong Kong
Publisher: Hong Kong Film Archive
PubDate: 2001
PhysDes: 29 cm; 24 pp
Subject: HONG KONG; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; SHAW BROTHERS; ASIAN COUNTRIES
Summary: A pictorial exhibition catalogue of Hong Kong cinema from the 1910s to the dawn of the twenty-first century. The exhibition and this catalogue “attempt to display the progress of Hong Kong cinema from handicraft to modernization, from intense labour to its blending with new technology, creating a striking Eastern aesthetic” and covers from silent to talkies; East meets West; post-war recovery; money talks; the studio era; new century of martial arts; acrobats and kung-fu; read? Action!; new wave and modernization; new visual techniques; dressed to kill; screen fashion; unforgettable settings; painting the city; digital realm; East-West fusion and; into the 21st century.
ISBN: 9628050125

Call No: 736.35(512.317) HON
Source: HK
Place: Hong Kong
Publisher: Hong Kong Film Archive
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: 96 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; HONG KONG; LEE, BRUCE; CHAN, JACKIE; Yeoh, Michelle; LI, JET; CHENG PEI PEI
Summary: Contains two levels of significance. First, it is the reappearance of many veterans of our film industry to relate their memories; and second, it retrospects on the development of martial arts films through extracts of video interviews whereby veterans speak about the martial arts genre and the pictures. The veterans that the Hong Kong Film Archive has managed to interview span from Chin Tsi-ang, Hong Kong's first lady martial arts star (the grandmother of Sammo Hung), to Michelle Yeoh, who has now carried her fame and talent into Hollywood. Among them are prominent stars and directors who have long retired as well as those up-and-coming talents still working in the industry. In English and Chinese. Taken from http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/HKFA/english/publication/pub05_preface.html
ISBN: 9628050060
Language: Chinese; English

Call No: 71(595) VAN
Author: van der Heide, William
Source: NE
Place: Amsterdam
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: 301 p. : 24 cm
Series: Film Culture in Transition
Subject: MALAYSIA; ASIAN COUNTRIES; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; SAMURAI FILMS; WESTERNS. ITALY; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; INDIA; HONG KONG; INDONESIA
Summary: A detailed study of the complexities of the film industry and film culture in Malaysia. Using cross-cultural analysis approaches, the book characterizes Malaysia as a pluralist society, consisting of a multiplicity of cultural identities.
Notes: Includes filmography Includes bibliography Includes index
ISBN: 9053565809 (pbk.) 9053565191 (hbk.)

Call No: 736.35 MIN
Author: Mintz, Marilyn D., 1950
Place: South Brunswick [N.J.]
Publisher: A. S. Barnes
PubDate: c1978
PhysDes: 243 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; KUROSAWA AKIRA; LEE, BRUCE; ALFRED THE GREAT (UK, Clive Donner, 1969); ENTER THE DRAGON (US/HK, Robert Clouse, 1973); JIGOKUMON (JA, Teinosuke kinugasa, 1953); GOLDEN NEEDLES (US, Robert Clouse, 1974); SUGATA SANSHIRO (JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1943); CH'UAN CHI (HK, Chang Cheh, 1973); SHAOLIN MARTIAL ARTS (HK, Chang Cheh, 1974)
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 231-234; Filmography: p. 220-229
ISBN: 0498017753 : $9.95
LON: 847828
ID2: 291

Call No: 71(5) MUL
Source: US
Place: Philadelphia PA
Publisher: Temple University Press
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: 250 p. ; 25 cm
Subject: ASIAN COUNTRIES; GLOBALISATION; CHINA; TAIWAN; HONG KONG; JAPAN; KOREA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA.CHINA; KWOK WAH LAU JENNY
Summary: Multiple Modernities explores the cultural terrain of East Asia. Arguing that becoming modern happens differently in different places, the contributors examine popular culture – most notably cinema and television – to see how modernization, as both a response to the West and a process that is unique in its own right in the region, operates on a mass level. Included in this collection are significant explorations of popular culture in East Asia, including Chinese new cinema and rock music, Korean cinema, and Taiwanese television, as well as discussions of alternative arts in general. While each essay focuses on specific nations or cinemas, the collective effect of reading them is to offer a comprehensive, in-depth picture of how popular culture in East Asia operates to both generate and reflect the immense change this significant region of the world is undergoing. [Taken from back cover.]
ISBN: 1566399866

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS

Call No: 802.25(52) DES
Author: D., Chris [Desjardins, Chris]
Source: UK/US
Place: London ; New York
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: ix, 262 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; JAPAN; INDUSTRY, FILM. JAPAN; FUKASAKU KINJI; SUZUKI, SEIJUM; MIIKE TAKASHI
Summary: This book offers an extraordinary close-up on the golden age of Japanese cult, action and exploitation cinema from the early 1950s through to the late 1970s, and up to the present day
Notes: Includes index.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-257); Includes filmographies.
ISBN: 9781845110864
Contents: 1. Kinji Fukasaku -- 2. Eiichi Kudo -- 3. Shinichi 'Sonny' Chiba -- 4. Meiko Kaji -- 5. Junya Sato -- 6. Kihachi Okamoto -- 7. Kazuo Ikehiro -- 8. Masahiro Shinoda -- 9. Yasuharu Hasebe -- 10. Seijun Suziki -- 11. Teruo Ishii -- 12. Koji Wakamatsu -- 13. Takashi Miike -- 14. Kiyoshi Kurosawa -- Appendices -- Selected bibliography
ID2: 291

Author: Clarke, Jim
PhysDes: Article
Subject: SHAW BROTHERS; INDUSTRY, FILM. HONG KONG; INDUSTRY, FILM. ASIAN COUNTRIES; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; DISTRIBUTION
Summary: Interview with Run Run Shaw, president of the Shaw Brothers Ltd., on making martial films, making films in Asia, and distributing Asian films.

Call No: FESTIVAL CATALOGUE SHELVES
Edition: 1980
Source: HK
Place: Hong Kong
Publisher: Urban Council
PubDate: 1980
PhysDes: 239p. : illus. : 30cm.
Series: Hong Kong International Film Festival Catalogue
Subject: HONG KONG; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS
Notes: The 4th Hong Kong International Film Festival April 3-18, 1980; Part 1 : Development - Structure - Myth; Part 2 : Important figures in the genre; Part 3 : Biographical notes; Part 4 : Program notes; Part 5 : Filmography of Chinese Martial Arts films
Language: English

Call No: 81TSU SWO
Author: Sam Ho (ed.)
CorpAuthor: Hong Kong Film Archive
Source: Hong Kong
Place: Hong Kong
Publisher: Hong Kong Film Archive
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: 267 p ; 27 cm
Subject: TSUI, HARK; HONG KONG; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS
Summary: Tsui Hark is best known for his martial arts films. From his very first feature, The Butterfly Murders (1979), he has been making films regularly in the wuxia genre and many of them are importnt re-definitions of the genre. [Taken from introduction].
ISBN: 962805015X
Language: Chinese and English

Call No: 720(5) TAR
Author: Mark Pilkington
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 17 cm ; 58 p
Subject: HORROR FILMS. HONG KONG; HORROR FILMS; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; CHINA; KOREA; JAPAN; TAIWAN; HONG KONG; GENRES; THAILAND
Summary: With titles such as Hard Boiled, Kwaidan and Onibaba, Tartan delivered the best and most provocative cinema from the East. But when Ring and Audition were unleashed upon unsuspecting audiences nationwide it became apparent that the appetite for such outrageous fare was massive, and it made sense to let people know where to find it. Thus, Asia Extreme was born. Films such as Battle Royale and Infernal Affairs continue to satisfy the ever increasing hunger for astounding cinematic style and outrageous shock moments, while a swathe of even newer titles – like Oldboy and Koma – wait in the wings for their chance to leave audiences breathless. Now, it seems inconceivable that, once upon a time, Asia Extreme didn’t exist at all. Heres the story of the origin and development of the most exciting and unique of all contemporary genres. [Taken from back cover].