HONG KONG FILMS
ripped through kung fu stereotypes in the 80s/90s. Headpress is proud to announce the definitive volume on stunt hazards, pistol ballets, snarky gangsters and toothsome molls, hopping vampires, and Hong Kong noir!
History! How and why did films from Hong Kong — a former British Crown Colony and map-speck — become so popular?
Action! Filmmakers like Tsui Hark and Ringo Lam served up fantasy, while horror and noir dramas hit the grindhouses of Kowloon.
Subtitles! “So. You think your kung fu’s… pretty good. But still. You’re going to die today. Ah ha ha ha. Ah ha ha ha ha ha.”
More Sex, Better Zen, Faster Bullets: The Encyclopedia of Hong Kong Film
Suburban Grindhouse
Part memoir, part film criticism, this book looks at the affect New York and New Jersey theatre audiences had on ...
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My Favourite Dictators
I’m personally against seeing my pictures and statues in the streets, but it’s what the people want ...
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Bobby In Naziland
Brooklyn, 1955-64: A boy learns about life and death from the WWII vets and Holocaust survivors who surround him ...
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