A talk by Dr. Kin-Yan Szeto
Fri, 05/01/2015 - 3:00pm
The wuxia genre had attracted great interest and investment in China when Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) became an international box-office hit and won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This presentation will look at how wuxia films made after 2000 navigate the demands of commercial entertainment and the promotion of Chinese culture and nationalism. Dr. Kin-yan Szeto, associate professor in the Department of Theater and Dance at Appalachian State University, is the author of Martial Arts Cinema of the Chinese Diaspora, a study of the international films of Ang Lee, John Woo, and Jackie Chan.
