03576nam 22007095 450 991048467150332120230810172829.03-030-73081-610.1007/978-3-030-73081-9(CKB)4100000011902507(MiAaPQ)EBC6566980(Au-PeEL)EBL6566980(OCoLC)1249474916(DE-He213)978-3-030-73081-9(EXLCZ)99410000001190250720210420d2021 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCraziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema /by Harry H. Kuoshu1st ed. 2021.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2021.1 online resource (167 pages)Chinese Literature and Culture in the World,2945-72623-030-73080-8 Chapter 1: Introduction: Crazy Stone Phenomenon and Chinese Neo-Noir Comedies -- Chapter 2: Prelude: Rehumanization Craziness and Traditional Noir -- Chapter 3: Discourses: Crazy Stone Dropped in a “Postmodern” Pond -- Chapter 4: Films: Because of Crazy Stone -- Chapter 5: Dual Retrievals of Cinematic Craziness: A Coda.Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema offers an in-depth discussion of the “stone phenomenon” in Chinese film production and cinematic discourses triggered by the extraordinary success of the 2006 low-budget film, Crazy Stone. Surveying the nuanced implications of the film noir genre, Harry Kuoshu argues that global neo noir maintains a mediascape of references, borrowings, and re-workings and explores various social and cultural issues that constitute this Chinese episode of neo noir. Combining literary explorations of carnival, postmodernism, and post-socialism, Kuoshu advocates for neo noir as a cultural phenomenon that connects filmmakers, film critics, and film audiences rather than an industrial genre. Harry H. Kuoshu is Herring Endowed Chair in Asian Studies and Film Studies at Furman University, USA, where he teaches courses on Chinese film, literature, culture and language. In addition to scholarly articles, he is the author of Lightness of Being in China (1999), Celluloid China (2002), and Metro Movies: Cinematic Urbanism in Post-Mao China (2011).Chinese Literature and Culture in the World,2945-7262Oriental literatureMotion picturesAsiaCultureStudy and teachingLiteraturePhilosophyMotion picturesAsian LiteratureAsian Film and TVCultural TheoryLiterary TheoryFilm TheoryClose Readings in Film and TVOriental literature.Motion picturesAsia.CultureStudy and teaching.LiteraturePhilosophy.Motion pictures.Asian Literature.Asian Film and TV.Cultural Theory.Literary Theory.Film Theory.Close Readings in Film and TV.809.895791.43655Kuoshu Harry H.1955-849331MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910484671503321Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema1896829UNINA