The assassin : Hou Hsiao-hsien's World of Tang China / edited by Peng Hsiao-yen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peng, Xiaoyan, 1952- editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947---Criticism and interpretation.

Hou, Xiaoxian.

Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947-.

Assassin (Motion picture).

Martial arts films--China--History and criticism.

Martial arts films.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

China--History--Tang dynasty, 618-907--In motion pictures.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 231 pages) : illustrations (some color), 1 map, portraits (some color

Other Title:

Cover title also in Chinese: Ci ke Nie Yinniang

Hou Hsiao-hsien's World of Tang China

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2019]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Section 1 The Auteur Speaking and Auteurism Revisited

1 The Screen Frame Is Only a Faintly Discernable Existence in the Real World: An Interview with Hou Hsiao-hsien and Xie Haimeng by Yang Zhao p. 19 / Translated by Christopher Lupke

2 To Kill or Not to Kill: Auteurism and Storytelling p. 40 / Peng Hsiao-yen

Section 2 Literary and Film Adaptation and Editing

3 The Assassin and Heibai Wei: Two Dramatic Adaptations of "Nie Yinniang" p. 59 / Yuan-ju Liu and Peng Hsiao-yen

4 The Assassin as Adaptation and Transmedia Practice p. 72 / Tze-lan Deborah Sang

Section 3 Sight and Sound

5 Visuality and Music in The Assassin: The Tang World Recreated p. 89 / Peng Hsiao-yen

6 The Three Ears of The Assassin p. 99 / Timmy Chih-ting Chen and Hsiao-hung Chang

7 Veiled Listening: The Assassin as an Eavesdropper p. 114 / Nicole Huang

8 Sounding against the Grain: Music, Voice, and Noise in The Assassin p. 133 / James A. Steintrager

Section 4 Xia and Traditional Worldviews

9 The Martial Arts of Nostalgia: Sentimentalism and Modernity Overcome in The Assassin p. 147 / Jen-Hao Walter Hsu

10 Ethics and Aesthetics in The Assassin p. 161 / Hsiu-Chuang Deppman

11 The Something of Nothing: Buddhism and The Assassin p. 178 / Victor Fan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography (pages [202]-204) and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947- Assassin.

ISBN:

9789882204638

9882204635

Publisher Number:

40029129568

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.