Grady Hendrix is an award-winning New York Times bestselling author and one of the founders of the New York Asian Film Festival. He's covered the Asian film industry for Variety, Sight & Sound, and Film Comment, among others. He lives in NYC. Chris Poggiali is a librarian, writer and film historian who edited the fanzine Temple of Schlock from 1987 - 1991, and brought it back as a blog in 2008. He has written about film for numerous magazines, websites, and DVDs/Blu-rays.
"...funny, fascinating, and encyclopedic..." -- The Playlist
"...a fascinating overview of martial arts movies..." --
SlashFilm
"These Fists Break Bricks is a bone-crushing blast!" - Steven
Puchalski, Shock Cinema Magazine
"These Fists Break Bricks is a total blast! Impeccably researched,
it's perfect for both the Tarantino-level fanatic or a newbie who
has only seen Enter the Dragon." - Larry Karaszewski, screenwriter
(Ed Wood, Dolemite Is My Name)
"These Fists Break Bricks is that rare combination of a fun read
combined with true scholarship, complemented by an amazing
collection of images..." - C. Courtney Joyner, screenwriter (Class
of 1999, From a Whisper to a Scream)
"A fascinating and amazingly complete tome..." -- Larry Hama,
writer/artist (G.I. Joe, Wolverine)
"Chris Poggiali and Grady Hendrix really have a special thing in
These Fists Break Bricks, and I can't wait to suggest it to
others." - Book Squad Goals
"Full of great illos and facts about the producers, directors,
stars, distributors, theaters, and the endless retitles and
rip-offs. This book is excellent." -Michael J. Weldon,
author/editor (The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film, Psychotronic
Video)
"This book oughta be called KungFuPedia -- you can just look at the
pictures and increase your martial-arts movie knowledge by a
thousand percent. If you don't own it, you deserve to be whopped on
the right side of your face by Billy Jack's right foot." -Joe Bob
Briggs
"This intelligent, witty, respectful virtual encyclopedia is as fun
as the subject it covers. Marvelously designed and written by two
experts, it is the book all kung fu movie fans have been waiting
for." -- Danny Peary, author and film critic (Cult Movies 1-3, Cult
Movie Stars)
"This is no schlock-by-numbers quickie film book. Hendrix and
Poggiali are twin ninjas of celluloid..." - Donald Guarisco,
Schlockmania!
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