Hong Kong Neo-Noir (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Yau, Esther; Williams, Tony

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474412674
• Artikelnr.: 50402191

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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