"Kenneth Hall has masterfully captured the career of Hong Kong director John Woo, as well as the production background, style and structure, and impacts of his cult film, The Killer. Succinctly organized, excellently researched with direct access to Woo,

"Kenneth Hall has written a remarkable and illuminating analysis of John Woo's The Killer. He not only provides well-researched background information concerning the relationship of Woo's early work to this film but also a significant argument for regardi

Kenneth E. Hall is Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages at East Tennessee State University. His landmark study John Woo The Films, was published in 1999. He has also translated two of Guillermo Cabrera Infante's major works Mea Cuba (1994) and A Twentieth Century Job (1991) and published Guillermo Cabrera Infante and the Cinema (1989).