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Ultimate Guide to Martial Arts Movies of the 1970s PRE-ORDERS ARE BEING ACCEPTED NOW. BOOK IS DUE IN NOVEMBER 2010
The Ultimate Guide to Martial Arts Movies of the 1970s dives deep into the decade that brought martial arts cinema to the masses. This dynamic guide launches into “martialogies” of 500-plus films, including such classics as The Five Venoms, The Big Boss, Drunken Master, and the Lone Wolf and Cub series. Each martialogy is filled with humor and contains a concise plot summary, behind-the-scenes reel and real history, fight statistics, insights into martial arts choreography and style, and other surprising factoids about each title.
The second part of this comprehensive book is a complete index that lists more than 2,000 actors and movies by all their English variations. It also includes an index for movies by country of origin. Written by a martial artist and movie fan for martial artists and movie fans, The Ultimate Guide to Martial Arts Movies of the 1970s is an accurate resource, fun read and excellent steppingstone into the world of kung fu movies.
Dr. Craig D. Reid is one of America’s most respected martial arts film historians and critics. In 1979, he became the first regular Caucasian and American stuntman in Chinese kung fu movies and kung fu TV soap operas in Taiwan. Since then, he has accrued credits as a screenwriter, fight choreographer, kung fu scholar, television personality, and university and guest martial arts lecturer.
“Calling this comprehensive encyclopedia The Ultimate Guide to Martial Arts Movies of the 1970s is an apt description. Like the treasure trove of the 500-plus titles it celebrates, the book is a feast.” —John Fusco, screenwriter of The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)
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http://www.blackbeltmag.com/product/1183En espérant que le livre ne soit pas une compilation de ce qui existe déjà sur le net. Trouvable ici : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultimate-Guide-Mar...87478760&sr=8-1Sortie le 1er Novembre 2010. Critique du livre et interview de l'auteur en anglais sur le HKCinemagic Ce message a été modifié par ah_thomas le Vendredi 03 Décembre 2010 10h00
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Weapons and Warriors Pack the Ultimate Kung Fu Movies Book
Read the ultimate guide to classic martial arts movies of the 1970s.
The Ultimate Guide to Martial Arts Movies of the 1970s delivers more than 500 reviews from respected kung fu movies critic, Dr. Craig D. Reid. Reid examines the decade that brought kung fu movies to the masses.
To combat a life-threatening illness, Reid began studying kung fu in 1972, after being inspired by Bruce Lee movies. By 1979, Reid was the first American stuntmen to work in the Chinese kung fu movies industry.
For his book, Reid relived the 1970s by watching 500+ martial arts movies. Each review, or “martialogy,” in The Ultimate Guide to Martial Arts Movies of the 1970s is filled with Reid’s extensive knowledge of martial arts history, cinema and fight choreography. They include Bruce Lee movies like Enter the Dragon, Jackie Chan movies like Drunken Master, Sonny Chiba movies like Street Fighter, Tom Laughlin movies like Billy Jack, Chuck N.orris movies like Good Guys Wear Black, and Shaw Brothers movies like The Five Venoms.
“The Ultimate Guide to Martial Arts Movies is an apt description,” says John Fusco, writer of the martial arts movie The Forbidden Kingdom. “Like the treasure trove of the 500+ titles it celebrates, the book is a feast.”
The Ultimate Guide to Martial Arts Movies of the 1970s also contains 150 stills of Shaw Brothers martial arts movies, a catalog of 2,000+ martial arts movies actors and film titles with all their English name variations and a movie index organized by country of origin.
The Ultimate Guide to Martial Arts Movies of the 1970s: 500+ Films Loaded With Action, Weapons and Warriors by Dr. Craig D. Reid $26.95 | 287 pgs. | color pictures blackbeltmag.com/movie-guide
About the Author Dr. Craig D. Reid, the respected martial arts film historian and critic, has accrued credits as a screenwriter, fight choreographer, kung fu scholar, television personality, and university and guest martial arts lecturer.
About Black Belt Black Belt is the world’s leading martial arts books and martial arts DVDs publisher. It publishes martial arts books and martial arts DVDs, including jujutsu, mixed martial arts, reality-based self-defense, grappling and jeet kune do. For more on Black Belt and its line of martial arts books and martial arts DVDs, visit http://www.blackbeltmag.com.
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Livre reçu à la rédaction hier. Premiers constats, superbe objet, format peut ordinaire, livre plutôt grand, 21,5 X 27.7 cm, 1,5 cm d'épaisseur, avec 290 pages toutes en couleurs, papier glacé, pas mal de photos.
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Les photos des films sont très belles et fort bien reproduites. Il n'y a pas de poster pour chaque titre, mais on a 0 ou 1 photo par page.
La majorité des images proviennent des films du catalogue de la Shaw Brothers/Celestial.
Enfin, il mélange bcp de pays asiatiques, HK, Chine, Taïwan, Japon, Corée, Turquie, Inde, etc... La vaste majorité des textes sont sur les films de HK/Taïwan, mais il y a d'autres trucs.
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Critique du livre et interview de l'auteur en anglais sur le HKCinemagic http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/page.asp?aid=273&page=13 On apprend pas mal de trucs sur l'auteur dont les aventures à Taïwan sont aussi passionnantes que le livre lui-même. Sur le livre : |
Dr. Reid is thorough on many levels and his prose is clear, entertaining, witty and engaging. The 1970s 500+ martial arts films reviewed are mostly from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, USA, and India, with an emphasis on Chinese language kung fu films (354 entries/500). Most of them being from the Shaw Brothers. Beautiful stills from the films illustrating the book are mostly provided by Celestial Pictures Ltd., the company that owns the rights to the Shaw Brothers catalogue.
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all the stuntmen in the film wanted to fight me (long story behind that one), Ding advertised me as the American Bruce Lee…
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The book was originally going to be the Top 1001 Films of All Time, then The Top 1001 of the 1970s.
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By the time I had 900 films prepared for watching, it was decided for me to write about 600+ films. However, as I started writing each martialogy, I wanted to be thorough about the film on many different levels, so quality became more important than quantity. As I handed stuff into Black Belt, they perhaps worried that the book would be too thick and expensive so we got the amount down to 500+ films. It was really hard having to decide which 500+ to keep. Some classic films like Brothers Two and Hapkido sadly ended up on the chopping block.
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J'en ai lu une partie mais je le savoure lentement... J'aime bien...mais certaines choses me gênent... Le choix des films est purement arbitraire...beaucoup de films ont un % martial infime (on y trouve même certains James Bond) et ne méritent pas vraiment d'être qualifié ainsi selon moi Certaines chroniques sont bien mais se concentrent beaucoup sur l'intrigue (chapeau parce que pour suivre certains Wu Xia de la SB faut se lever tot, je comprends déjà pas les résumés ) et/ ou sur les aptitudes martiales des acteurs sans que l'on puisse vraiment se faire une idée de la qualité du film A mon sens il s'agit plus d'un livre riche et plein d'infos intéressante qu'un guide pour trier le bon du mauvais dans le kung fu seventies. Mais vu la somme de boulot, les photos et le prix dérisoire je le conseille grandement à tout le monde ici
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Salut, Une petite question, Ce livre semble trés bien, que me conseiller vous d'acheter pour une personne comme moi qui suis surtout un fan de la car j'hésite entre ce livre et "China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema" de Fu, Poshek? Merci d'avance.
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