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Global Chinese cinema : the culture and politics of Hero
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Global Chinese cinema : the culture and politics of Hero

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Changing discourse of national identities and heroism. The political narrative(s) of Hero / GARY D. RAWNSLEY
Recycled heroes, invented tradition and transformed identity / YINGJIE GUO
The emperor and the assassin: China's national Hero and the myth of state origins / YIYAN WANG
The king, the musician and the village idiot: images of manhood / KAM LOUIE
Transformations of cultural perception, genre and stardom. Twenty-first century women warriors: variations on a traditional theme / LOUISE EDWARDS
On "Tian Xia (All under heaven)" in Zhang Yimou's Hero / XIZOMING CHEN and MING-YEH T. RAWNSLEY
Hero: rewriting the Chinese martial arts film genre / HAIZHOU WANG AND MING-YEH T. RAWNSLEY
"Would you rather spend more time making serious cinema?": Hero and Tony Leung's polysemic masculinity / MARK GALLAGHER
Fifteen minutes of fame: transient/transnational female stardom in Hero / OLIVIA KHOO
Local vs. global: deconstructing global Chinese blockbusters. Camp pleasure in an era of Chinese blockbusters: internet reception of Hero in mainland China / SABRINA QIONG YU
North American reception of Zhang Yimou's Hero / WENDY LARSON
Heroic music: from Hunan to Hollywood and back / KATY GOW
Visual effects magic: Hero's Sydney connection / MARY FARQUHAR
Towards a global blockbuster: the political economy of Hero's nationalism / ANTHONY FUNG AND JOSEPH M. CHAN.

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