Tag: Film Masters’
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John Woo and the Male Ideal – How the Action-Auteur’s Films Reflect Different Visions of Masculinity in Hollywood and Hong Kong
This is a re-edited essay I wrote as part of my UCL Film Studies Masters’. The action film for decades provided a crucible in which modern-day masculinity has been forged and tested. Hong Kong and Hollywood have long been at the forefront of this, producing history’s most famed fighting-heroes from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Jackie Chan… Read more