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Bordwell, D. (2010). The cinema of Hong Kong: History, aesthetics, culture. Indiana University Press.
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David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson were not just textbook writers; they were pioneering film theorists and historians based at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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