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Film Studies: Genres

This guide highlights general film resources available at HKUST Library and on the Web. Resources on particular films, directors, actors/actresses will not be covered.

Independent film

Unexpected alliances : independent filmmakers, the state, and the film industry in postauthoritarian South Korea by Young-a Park
Call Number: PN1993.5.K6 P37 2015
Independent Film Marketing In The Digital Age
Call Number: e-book
Multidimensional niches and independent film production companies in Hollywood.
Call Number: e-book
Chinese Film Festivals: Sites of Translation
Call Number: e-book
Best kept secret by BKS Film in association with Occasional Giant Beard Productions presents ; produced by Danielle DiGiacomo ; co-produced by Samantha Buck, Zeke Farrow ; directed by Samantha Buck ; written by Zeke Farrow, Samantha Buck, Francisco Bello.
Call Number: e-video

Animated Films

The anime encyclopedia : a guide to Japanese animation since 1917 by Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy
Call Number: NC1766.J3 C53 2006
The animanted bestiary by Paul Wells
Call Number: PN1995.9.A5 W45 2009 & e-book
Animated encounters : transnational movements of Chinese animation, 1940s-1970s by by Daisy Yan Du
Call Number: NC1766.C6 D8 2019 and e-book
Animating film theory by Karen Beckman
Call Number: e-book
Pixar's America : the re-animation of American myths and symbols by Dietmar Meinel
Call Number: e-book
Understanding Animation by Paul Wells
Call Number: NC1765 .W45 1998

Documentary Films

A companion to contemporary documentary film by edited by Alexandra Juhasz and Alisa Lebow
Call Number: e-book
Hong Kong documentary film by Ian Aitken and Michael Ingham
Call Number: PN1995.9.D6 A58 2014
Soul of the documentary : framing, expression, ethics by Ilona Hongisto
Call Number: e-book
中國獨立紀錄片檔案 by 梅冰, 朱靖江
Call Number: PN1995.9.D6 M46 2004
中國早期紀錄電影與民國革命影像檔案 by 中國電影資料館编
Call Number: PN1995.9.D6 Z47 2011
影像中的20世纪中國 : 中國紀錄片的發展與社會變遷 by 唐晨光
Call Number: PN1995.9.D6 T36 2011
A companion to Hong Kong cinema by edited by Esther M. K. Cheung, Gina Marchetti, and Esther C.M. Yau
Call Number: e-book
The philosophy of documentary film : image, sound, fiction, truth by edited by David LaRocca ; foreword by Timothy Corrigan
Call Number: e-book
製造香港 : 本土獨立紀錄片初探 by 編輯張偉雄, 周思中
Call Number: PN1995.9.D6 Z45 2011

Horror and Fantasy Films

The A to Z of horror cinema by Peter Hutchings
Call Number: e-book
Japanese horror films and their American remakes : translating fear, adapting culture by Valerie Wee
Call Number: PN1995.9.H6 W395 2014

Biographical Films

From split to screened selves : French and Francophone autobiography in the third person by Rachel Gabara
Call Number: PQ307.A65 G33 2006
The biopic in contemporary film culture by edited by Tom Brown and Belén Vidal
Call Number: e-book

Film Noir

Crime wave : the filmgoers' guide to the great crime movies by Howard Hughes
Call Number: e-book
Hong Kong neo-noir by Esther C.M. Yau and Tony Williams.
Call Number: e-book
A companion to film noire by edited by Andrew Spicer and Helen Hanson.
Call Number: e-book
International noir by edited by Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer
Call Number: e-book
The philosophy of film noir by edited by Mark T. Conard ; foreword by Robert Porfirio
Call Number: PN1995.9.F54 P55 2006

Martial Arts Films or Hero Movies

Chinese martial arts cinema : the Wuxia tradition by Stephen Teo
Call Number: PN1995.9.H3 T46 2016
Global Chinese cinema : the culture and politics of Hero edited by Gary D. Rawnsley and Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley
Call Number: PN1997.Y4735 G56 2010
Jet Li : Chinese masculinity and transnational film stardom by Sabrina Qiong Yu
Call Number: PN2878.L34 Y827 2012
The martial arts cinema of the Chinese diaspora : Ang Lee, John Woo, and Jackie Chan in Hollywood by Kin-Yan Szeto
Call Number: PN1995.9.H3 S94 2011
Women in Chinese martial arts films of the new millennium : narrative analyses and gender politics by Ya-chen Chen
Call Number: PN1995.9.H3 C54 2012
武俠 by 我們制作有限公司 ... [et al.]出品 ; 我們制作有限公司攝制 ; 編劇林愛華 ; 監制許月珍, 陳可辛 ; 導演陳可辛
Call Number: PN1997.A123 W8865 2011
佈景魔術師 : 陳其銳、陳景森父子的佈景美學 by 作者陳廣隆 ... [et al.]
Call Number: PN1995.9.S4 B8 2013
導演的起點 : 100位華語電影導演, 第一部作品誔生的故事 by 程青松主编
Call Number: PN1993.5.C4 D368 2016
主善為師 : 黃飛鴻電影研究 by [編者蒲鋒, 劉嶔]
Call Number: PN1995.9.H3 Z48 2012

Musical Films

The migration of musical film : from ethnic margins to American mainstream by Desirée J. Garcia
Call Number: e-book
The visual music film by Aimee Mollaghan
Call Number: e-book
Musicals: Hollywood and beyond by edited by Bill Marshall and Robynn Stilwell.
Call Number: e-book
我愛黃梅調 : 絲竹中國古典印象 : 港台黃梅調電影初探 by 陳煒智
Call Number: PN1995.9.M86 C44 2005

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