Hong Kong Neo-Noir

ISBN-13: 9781474412667 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 280 str.

Esther Yau; Tony Williams

Opis

The first comprehensive collection on Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong Kong has developed its own unique version of noir since the late 1940s, while drawing upon and enriching global neo-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 before and after the 1997 Handover.
Case studies include classics such as The Wild, Wild Rose (1960) and more recent films like Full Alert (1997), Exiled (2007) and Shinjuku Incident (2008). It provides a fresh look at the careers of iconic figures Johnnie To, Jackie Chan and Fruit Chan. By examining the films of emigre Shanghai directors, the cool women killers, the hybrids and noir cityscapes, Hong Kong Neo-Noir explores the complex connections between a vibrant cinema and global noir.
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Spis treści

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