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.
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.
Esther C. M. Yau teaches cinema studies in the School of Humanities at The University of Hong Kong. Tony Williams is Professor and Area Head of Film Studies, English Department, southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Hong Kong Neo-Noir, Esther C. M. Yau and Tony Williams SECTION A: SEEDS OF NOIR IN HONG KONG CINEMA Chapter 1: 'A Rose by Any Other Name': Wong Tin-lam's The Wild, Wild Rose as Melodrama Musical Noir Hybrid, Lisa Odham Stokes Chapter 2: Black & Red: Post-war Hong Kong Noir and Its Interrelation with Progressive Cinema, 1947-1957, Law Kar Chapter 3: Sword, Fist, or Gun? The 1970s Origins of Contemporary Hong Kong Noir, Kristof Van den Troost SECTION B: NEO-NOIR FILMS IN CLOSE-UP Chapter 4: Doubled Indemnity: Fruit Chan and the Meta-Fictions of Hong Kong Neo-Noir, Adam Bingham Chapter 5: Running on Karma: Hong Kong Noir and the Political Unconscious, Gina Marchetti Chapter 6: Beyond Hypothermia: Cool Women Killers in Hong Kong Cinema, David Desser Chapter 7: Tech-Noir: A Subgenre may not exist in Hong Kong Science Fiction Films, Kwai-Cheung Lo SECTION C: COSMOPOLITAN CITYSPACE AND NEO-NOIR Chapter 8: Location Filmmaking and the Hong Kong Crime Film: Anatomy of a Scene, Julian Stringer Chapter 9: Running out of Time, Hard-Boiled, and 24-Hour Cityspace, Kenneth E. Hall Chapter 10: Exiled in Macau: Hong Kong Neo-Noir and Paradoxical Lyricism, Jinhee Choi Chapter 11: The Tentacles of History: Shinjuku Incident's Return of the Repressed, Tony Williams Bibliography Filmography
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Hong Kong Neo-Noir, Esther C. M. Yau and Tony Williams SECTION A: SEEDS OF NOIR IN HONG KONG CINEMA Chapter 1: 'A Rose by Any Other Name': Wong Tin-lam's The Wild, Wild Rose as Melodrama Musical Noir Hybrid, Lisa Odham Stokes Chapter 2: Black & Red: Post-war Hong Kong Noir and Its Interrelation with Progressive Cinema, 1947-1957, Law Kar Chapter 3: Sword, Fist, or Gun? The 1970s Origins of Contemporary Hong Kong Noir, Kristof Van den Troost SECTION B: NEO-NOIR FILMS IN CLOSE-UP Chapter 4: Doubled Indemnity: Fruit Chan and the Meta-Fictions of Hong Kong Neo-Noir, Adam Bingham Chapter 5: Running on Karma: Hong Kong Noir and the Political Unconscious, Gina Marchetti Chapter 6: Beyond Hypothermia: Cool Women Killers in Hong Kong Cinema, David Desser Chapter 7: Tech-Noir: A Subgenre may not exist in Hong Kong Science Fiction Films, Kwai-Cheung Lo SECTION C: COSMOPOLITAN CITYSPACE AND NEO-NOIR Chapter 8: Location Filmmaking and the Hong Kong Crime Film: Anatomy of a Scene, Julian Stringer Chapter 9: Running out of Time, Hard-Boiled, and 24-Hour Cityspace, Kenneth E. Hall Chapter 10: Exiled in Macau: Hong Kong Neo-Noir and Paradoxical Lyricism, Jinhee Choi Chapter 11: The Tentacles of History: Shinjuku Incident's Return of the Repressed, Tony Williams Bibliography Filmography
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