Hong Kong Neo-Noir /

Hong Kong Neo-Noir / / Esther Yau, Tony Williams.

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The first comprehensive collection on the subject of Hong Kong neo-noir cinemaThe 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 cine...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
VerfasserIn:
Yau, Esther,
Williams, Tony,
MitwirkendeR:
Bingham, Adam,
Choi, Jinhee,
Desser, David,
Hall, Kenneth E.,
Kar, Law,
Lo, Kwai-Cheung,
Marchetti, Gina,
Stokes, Lisa Odham,
Stringer, Julian,
Troost, Kristof Van den,
Williams, Tony,
Yau, Esther C. M.,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2016
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film : ESEAF
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 30 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Introduction: Hong Kong Neo-Noir
  • PART ONE. 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
  • Chapter 2 Black and Red: Post-War Hong Kong Noir and its Interrelation with Progressive Cinema, 1947-57
  • Chapter 3 Sword, Fist or Gun? The 1970s Origins of Contemporary Hong Kong Noir
  • PART TWO. NEO-NOIR FILMS IN CLOSE-UP
  • Chapter 4 Doubled Indemnity: Fruit Chan and the Meta-Fictions of Hong Kong Neo-Noir
  • Chapter 5 Running on Karma: Hong Kong Noir and the Political Unconscious
  • Chapter 6 Beyond Hypothermia: Cool Women Killers in Hong Kong Cinema
  • Chapter 7 Tech-Noir: A Sub-Genre May not Exist in Hong Kong Science Fiction Films
  • PART THREE. COSMOPOLITAN CITYSPACE AND NEO-NOIR
  • Chapter 8 Location Filmmaking and the Hong Kong Crime Film: Anatomy of a Scene
  • Chapter 9 Running Out of Time, Hard-Boiled and 24-Hour Cityspace
  • Chapter 10 Exiled in Macau: Hong Kong Neo-Noir and Paradoxical Lyricism
  • Chapter 11 The Tentacles of History: Shinjuku Incident's Return of the Repressed
  • Bibliography
  • Filmography
  • Index

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