Preface

1. All Too Extravagant, Too Gratuitously Wild

Hong Kong and/as/or Hollywood

2. Local Heroes

Two Dragons: Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan

3. The Chinese Connections

4. Once upon a Time in the West

Enough to Make Strong Men Weep: John Woo

5. Made in Hong Kong

A Chinese Feast: Tsui Hark

6. Formula, Form, and Norm

Whatever You Want: Wong Jing

7. Plots, Slack and Stretched

8. Motion Emotion: The Art of the Action Movie

Three Martial Masters: Zhang Che, Lau Kar-Leung, King Hu

9. Avant-Pop Cinema

Romance On Your Menu: Chungking Express

Further Reading

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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