Mysterious Buddha, popular cinema, and the new Chinese film culture in the early 1980s.
Mysterious Buddha was one of the earliest commercial genre films made in post-Cultural Revolution China. Drawing from the traditional Chinese popular literature of chuanqi, crime thrillers, martial arts films, and horror films, the film was a smash hit with domestic audiences despite condemnation fo...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 220 - 237 |
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