Hong Kong Neo-Noir

ISBN-13: 9781474431989 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 280 str.

Esther Yau; Tony Williams

Opis

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.

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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

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