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Experts in Action: Transnational Hong Kong–Style Stunt Work and Performance

Lauren Steimer

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Description:"Experts in Action approaches the transnational circulation of Hong Kong action cinema aesthetics and technique in relation to the industrial need for and creation of expert performers. "Hong Kong-style action" is an assemblage of elements most commonly associated with action design work from Hong Kong cinema of the 1980s and 1990 stunt performers as stars, Asian martial arts, complex fight sequences with multiple points of physical contact between cuts, and dynamic and fluid wire-work. These technical histories of corporeal practices congeal in the body of the expert action performer. The expert performers discussed in this book are "transnational" not simply because of the global marketing, distribution, and reception of their films and television programs, but because the act of production adapts techniques and corporeal practices common to Hong Kong action films to localized media contexts"--We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Experts in Action: Transnational Hong Kong–Style Stunt Work and Performance. To get started finding Experts in Action: Transnational Hong Kong–Style Stunt Work and Performance, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: "Experts in Action approaches the transnational circulation of Hong Kong action cinema aesthetics and technique in relation to the industrial need for and creation of expert performers. "Hong Kong-style action" is an assemblage of elements most commonly associated with action design work from Hong Kong cinema of the 1980s and 1990 stunt performers as stars, Asian martial arts, complex fight sequences with multiple points of physical contact between cuts, and dynamic and fluid wire-work. These technical histories of corporeal practices congeal in the body of the expert action performer. The expert performers discussed in this book are "transnational" not simply because of the global marketing, distribution, and reception of their films and television programs, but because the act of production adapts techniques and corporeal practices common to Hong Kong action films to localized media contexts"--We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Experts in Action: Transnational Hong Kong–Style Stunt Work and Performance. To get started finding Experts in Action: Transnational Hong Kong–Style Stunt Work and Performance, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Experts in Action: Transnational Hong Kong–Style Stunt Work and Performance

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