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John Woo's Bullet in the Head

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Though underappreciated in contemporary film criticism, Bullet in the Head is a landmark in John Woo's career as a film director. Featuring strong early work by Hong Kong stars such as Tony Leung C...
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Price: £20.00
Pages: 144
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Imprint: Hong Kong University Press
Series: New Hong Kong Cinema (Paperback)
Publication Date: 01 August 2009
Trim Size: 7.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9789622099685
Format: Paperback
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“The book makes a compelling case for examining Bullet in the Head as the high point of John Woo’s career in Hong Kong. Williams’s knowledge of Hong Kong cinema is encyclopedic, and the book effectively highlights the unique place of this ‘apocalyptic melodrama’ within that history, moving effortlessly between textual analysis and political context. This takes the existing literature on John Woo's ‘heroic bloodshed’ a step further and situates Woo’s oeuvre within a more complex, global film culture in which male melodrama and eschatology merge to open up new possibilities for reading popular Hong Kong film within a postmodern context.”
—Gina Marchetti, University of Hong Kong