These are academic volumes.

Category: Film Studies / Asian Studies / Cultural Studies

Yuen Woo Ping's Wing Chun
Sasha Vojković
The New Hong Kong Cinema Series



March 2009 156 pp.
Paperback ISBN 978-962-209-967-8 HK$135 / US$17.95
http://www.hkupress.org/book/9789622099678.htm

"This is an extremely interesting study of a critically neglected film. The author provides a stimulating and detailed analysis, written from a position of considerable knowledge of the martial arts genre, its history, traditions and cultural influences." -- Leon Hunt, Brunel University

- The first in-depth study of the work of Yuen Woo Ping, the well-known Hong Kong film director and action choreographer who achieved international recognition as an action choreographer such as The Matrix; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; and Kill Bill.
- Explores Wing Chun (詠春) 's narrative representation of femininity and the martial arts genre, its history, traditions and cultural influences.
- Provides new insights on the non-linear cinematic storytelling of the film.

Sasha Vojković is an associate professor of film and media at the Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Rijeka.


Johnnie To Kei-fung's PTU
Michael Ingham
The New Hong Kong Cinema Series




March 2009 164 pp.
Paperback ISBN 978-962-209-919-7 HK$135 / US$17.95
http://www.hkupress.org/book/9789622099197.htm


"The police and criminals are different sides of the same coin. Where there are thieves, there are police. Where there are police, there are thieves. You cannot have one without the other." -- Johnnie To

- The first major study of a single film by Johnnie To Kei-fung, who has been called "the poet of post-1997 and the economic savior of the Hong Kong film industry", and has a growing reputation in the international cinema scene.
- Offers a critical appreciation of the film's ensemble acting, groups operating under intense pressure, character development and psychological complexity.
- An interesting book for readers keen on film noir and the influences of French films on Hong Kong's contemporary cinema.

Michael Ingham teaches at Lingnan University. He is the author of Hong Kong: A Cultural and Literary History (2007), and co-editor with Xu Xi of City Voices: Hong Kong Writing in English, 1945 to the Present (2003) and City Stage: Hong Kong Playwriting in English (2005)



Category: Film Studies / Chinese Studies
with DVD of The Peach Girl 《桃花泣血記》
(starring Jin Yan and Ruan Ling-yu 阮玲玉)

Jin Yan
The Rudolph Valentino of Shanghai
Richard J. Meyer
With foreword by Robert Dallek




March 2009 212 pp.
Paperback ISBN 978-962-209-586-1 HK$195 / US$29.95
With DVD
http://www.hkupress.org/book/9789622095861.htm

"Dr. Meyer insightfully places Jin Yan's films within the film industry in which they were made and the socio-political context of their times. Invaluable for English-speaking readers." -- Peter Lehman, director, Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture, Arizona State University

- Tells the remarkable story of 'Emperor of Film', Jin Yan 金錎, who achieved his greatest stardom in the 1930s and dominated the golden age of Chinese silent movies.
- Includes dozens of photos and film stills; and is accompanied with a DVD of The Peach Girl 《桃花泣血記》(starring Jin Yan and Ruan Ling-yu 阮玲玉) which cannot be found in the market.

Richard J. Meyer, the Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Emeritus Professor of Telecommunications at Ball State University, teaches film at Seattle University.

About the film
Ruan plays Lingu, a peasant girl, who falls in love with the landlord's son De'en, played by Jin, who fathers her child. He promises marriage but is forbidden by his mother to see her because of class differences. De'en finally comes to Lingu's side, as she lies dying. The landowner relents after her death and allows her son to raise the child.



John Woo's The Killer
Kenneth E. Hall
The New Hong Kong Cinema Series



January 2009 140 pp.
Paperback ISBN 978-962-209-956-2 HK$135 / US$17.95
http://www.hkupress.org/book/9789622099562.htm


"Succinctly organized, excellently researched with direct access to Woo, textually analyzed often from comparative angles, and fascinatingly written, John Woo's The Killer adds another important dimension to the growing field of Asian cinema." -- John A. Lent, editor of Asian Cinema

- The first book to concentrate on the film, The Killer (喋血雙雄), which helped launch the international stardom of director John Woo and lead actor Chow Yun-fat.
- Topics include the positioning of the film within cinema history, study of its stylistic and thematic features, and generic treatment of the film as part of the film noir tradition.
- Analyzes how the directors like Chang Cheh and Jean-Pierre Melville influenced Woo, as well as Woo's inspirations for other filmmakers, including Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.

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.