Hong Kong Neo-Noir
Title | Hong Kong Neo-Noir PDF eBook |
Author | Esther Yau |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2017-04-28 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 147441267X |
The first comprehensive collection on the subject of Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong Kong has developed its own unique and culturally specific version of the neo-noir genre, while at the same time drawing on and adapting existing international noir cinemas. With a range of contributions from established and emerging scholars, this book illuminates the origins of Hong Kong neo-noir, its styles and contemporary manifestations, and its connection to mainland China. Case studies include classics such as The Wild Wild Rose (1960) and more recent films like Full Alert (1997) and Exiled (2007), as well as an in-depth look at the careers of iconic figures like Johnnie To and Jackie Chan. By examining at its past and its contemporary development, Hong Kong Neo-Noir also points towards the genre's possible future development.
Hong Kong Neo-Noir
Title | Hong Kong Neo-Noir PDF eBook |
Author | Esther Yau |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2017-04-28 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1474412688 |
The first comprehensive collection on the subject of Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong Kong has developed its own unique and culturally specific version of the neo-noir genre, while at the same time drawing on and adapting existing international noir cinemas. With a range of contributions from established and emerging scholars, this book illuminates the origins of Hong Kong neo-noir, its styles and contemporary manifestations, and its connection to mainland China. Case studies include classics such as The Wild Wild Rose (1960) and more recent films like Full Alert (1997) and Exiled (2007), as well as an in-depth look at the careers of iconic figures like Johnnie To and Jackie Chan. By examining at its past and its contemporary development, Hong Kong Neo-Noir also points towards the genre's possible future development.
Neo-Noir
Title | Neo-Noir PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Bould |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0231850476 |
Neo-noir knows its past. It knows the rules of the game – and how to break them. From Point Blank (1998) to Oldboy (2003), from Get Carter (2000) to 36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004), from Catherine Tramell to Max Payne, neo-noir is a transnational global phenomenon. This wide-ranging collection maps out the terrain, combining genre, stylistic and textual analysis with Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic and industrial approaches. Essays discuss works from the US, UK, France, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and New Zealand; key figures, such as David Lynch, the Coen Brothers, Quentin Tarantino and Sharon Stone; major conventions, such as the femme fatale, paranoia, anxiety, the city and the threat to the self; and the use of sound and colour.
Hong Kong Dark Cinema
Title | Hong Kong Dark Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Kim-Mui E. Elaine Chan |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2019-11-27 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 3030282937 |
This book is a scholarly investigation of the historical development and contemporary transformation of film noir in today’s Hong Kong. Focusing on the evolvement of cinematic narratives, aesthetics, and techniques, the author balances a deep reading of the multiple filmic plots with a discussion of the cinematic portrayals of gender, romance, identities and power relations. Nuancing the prototypical cinematic form and tragic sense of classical film noir, the recent Hong Kong cinema turns around the classical generic role of film noir at the turn of the century to convey very different messages—joy, hope or love. This book examines how the mainstream cinema, or pre-and-post-Hong Kong cinema in particular, applies a peculiar strategy that makes rooms for the audience to enjoy a pleasure-giving process of reflexivity and also critique the mainstream ideology. With new analytical approaches and angles, this book breaks new ground in offering transcultural and cross-genre analyses on the cinema and its impact in local and international markets. This book is the first major scholarly investigation of the historical development and contemporary transformation of film noir in today’s Hong Kong. Focusing on the evolvement of cinematic narratives, aesthetics, and techniques, the author balances a deep reading of the multiple filmic plots with a refreshing discussion of the cinematic portrayals of gender, romance, identities and power relations. This book also revisits conceptual categories developed by Foucault, Lacan, Derrida and Butler.
International Noir
Title | International Noir PDF eBook |
Author | Homer B. Pettey |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2014-11-11 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0748691111 |
Ranging from Japanese silent films and women's films to French, Hong Kong, and Nordic New Waves, this book explores the influence of noir on international cinematic traditions and challenges prevailing film scholarship. It includes extensive bibliography and filmographies for recommended reading and viewing.
Detours and Lost Highways
Title | Detours and Lost Highways PDF eBook |
Author | Foster Hirsch |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Pages | 407 |
Release | 2004-08-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 161774784X |
EDetours and Lost HighwaysE begins with the Orson Welles film ETouch of EvilE (1958) which featured Welles both behind and in front of the camera. That movie is often cited as the end of the line noir's rococo tombstone...the film after which noir cou
Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema
Title | Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Harry H. Kuoshu |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 167 |
Release | 2021-04-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3030730816 |
Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema offers an in-depth discussion of the “stone phenomenon” in Chinese film production and cinematic discourses triggered by the extraordinary success of the 2006 low-budget film, Crazy Stone. Surveying the nuanced implications of the film noir genre, Harry Kuoshu argues that global neo noir maintains a mediascape of references, borrowings, and re-workings and explores various social and cultural issues that constitute this Chinese episode of neo noir. Combining literary explorations of carnival, postmodernism, and post-socialism, Kuoshu advocates for neo noir as a cultural phenomenon that connects filmmakers, film critics, and film audiences rather than an industrial genre.