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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811047403321

Autore

Yau Esther

Titolo

Hong Kong neo-noir / / edited by Esther C.M. Yau and Tony Williams [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, , 2017

ISBN

1-4744-1268-8

1-4744-1267-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Edinburgh studies in East Asian film

Disciplina

791.43/655095125

Soggetti

Film noir - China - Hong Kong - History and criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

China Hong Kong

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Seeds of Noir in Hong Kong Cinema -- 'A Rose by Any Other Name': Wong Tin-lam's The Wild, Wild Rose as Melodrama Musical Noir Hybrid / Lisa Odham Stokes -- Black and Red: Post-War Hong Kong Noir and its Interrelation with Progressive Cinema, 1947-57 / Law Kar -- Sword, Fist or Gun? The 1970s Origins of Contemporary Hong Kong Noir / Kristof Van den Troost -- Neo-Noir Films in Close-Up -- Doubled Indemnity: Fruit Chan and the Meta-Fictions of Hong Kong Neo-Noir / Adam Bingham -- Running on Karma: Hong Kong Noir and the Political Unconscious / Gina Marchetti -- Beyond Hypothermia: Cool Women Killers in Hong Kong Cinema / David Desser -- Tech-Noir: A Sub-Genre May not Exist in Hong Kong Science Fiction Films / Kwai-Cheung Lo -- Three Cosmopolitan Cityspace and Neo-Noir -- ; 8. Location Filmmaking and the Hong Kong Crime Film: Anatomy of a Scene / Julian Stringer -- Running Out of Time, Hard-Boiled and 24-Hour Cityspace / Kenneth E. Hall -- Exiled in Macau: Hong Kong Neo-Noir and Paradoxical Lyricism / Jinhee Choi -- The Tentacles of History: Shinjuku Incident's Return of the Repressed / Tony Williams.

Sommario/riassunto

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.