Overview
Director Zhang Yimou's film Hero, released in 2002, is widely regarded as the first globally successful indigenous Chinese blockbuster, touching on key questions of Chinese culture, nation and politics. This book explores the reasons for the film's popularity with its audiences, and provides fascinating insights into recent developments in Chinese society, popular culture and cultural production.
- | Author: Gary D. Rawnsley
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Aug 17, 2011
- | Number of Pages: 252 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0415697093
- | ISBN-13: 9780415697095
