John Woo′s The Killer

Kenneth E. Hall is chair of the Department of Foreign Languages at East Tennessee State University. His landmark study John Woo: The Films, was published in 1999. He has also translated two of Guillermo Cabrera Infante's major works: Mea Cuba (1994) and A Twentieth Century Job (1991) and published Guillermo Cabrera Infante and the Cinema (1989).

Kenneth Hall has masterfully captured the career of Hong Kong director John Woo, as well as the production background, style and structure, and impacts of his cult film, The Killer. Succinctly organized, excellently researched with direct access to Woo, textually analyzed often from comparative angles, and fascinatingly written, John Woo's The Killer adds another important dimension to the growing field of Asian cinema. -- John A. Lent, editor of Asian Cinema