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Hong Kong Neo-Noir.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film SeriesPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781474412681
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hong Kong Neo-NoirDDC classification:
  • 791.43/655095125
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.F54 .H664 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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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Intro -- 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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