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  • Tony Williams. "Space, Place, and Spectacle: The Crisis Cinema of John Woo"

     

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ID number:269992
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Published: 15.04.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
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Hong Kong cinema is undergoing a particular process of transformation influenced by historical, political and geographic factors that question its very identity . This is apparent in the works of directors like John Woo and Wong Kah Wai. The article I've chosen is written by Tony Williams. "Space, Place, and Spectacle: The Crisis Cinema of John Woo." It depicts some of the ideas that John Woo was reflecting in his films. In John Woo's work, he has always wanted to reach out to more than an oriental audience. In the following argument I'll be touching on how he uses the combination of western and eastern technics and motif to reach out to the extended audience, the non-oriental audience. The space and identity of Hong Kong, the hybridity and how his religious background affects some of his film and also how his idea of having traditional values that John Woo always emphasize on like loyalty, honour, honesty, justice, and commitment to family contradicts to his negative perspective on the 1997 handing over of Hong Kong from the British colony the mainland China.
In John Woo's film, he always tries to reach out further than the eastern audience. …

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