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Hong Kong Neo-Noir

Author : Esther Yau
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147441267X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Hong Kong Neo-Noir written by Esther Yau and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. With a range of contributions from established and emerging scholars, this book illuminates the origins of Hong Kong neo-noir, its styles and contemporary manifestations, and its connection to mainland China. Case studies include classics such as The Wild Wild Rose (1960) and more recent films like Full Alert (1997) and Exiled (2007), as well as an in-depth look at the careers of iconic figures like Johnnie To and Jackie Chan. By examining at its past and its contemporary development, Hong Kong Neo-Noir also points towards the genre's possible future development.

Hong Kong Neo-Noir

Author : Esther Yau
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474412688
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Neo-Noir

Author : Mark Bould
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231850476
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Neo-Noir written by Mark Bould and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neo-noir knows its past. It knows the rules of the game – and how to break them. From Point Blank (1998) to Oldboy (2003), from Get Carter (2000) to 36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004), from Catherine Tramell to Max Payne, neo-noir is a transnational global phenomenon. This wide-ranging collection maps out the terrain, combining genre, stylistic and textual analysis with Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic and industrial approaches. Essays discuss works from the US, UK, France, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and New Zealand; key figures, such as David Lynch, the Coen Brothers, Quentin Tarantino and Sharon Stone; major conventions, such as the femme fatale, paranoia, anxiety, the city and the threat to the self; and the use of sound and colour.

International Noir

Author : Homer B. Pettey
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748691111
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book International Noir written by Homer B. Pettey and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from Japanese silent films and women's films to French, Hong Kong, and Nordic New Waves, this book explores the influence of noir on international cinematic traditions and challenges prevailing film scholarship. It includes extensive bibliography and filmographies for recommended reading and viewing.

Detours and Lost Highways

Author : Foster Hirsch
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 161774784X
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Detours and Lost Highways written by Foster Hirsch and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EDetours and Lost HighwaysE begins with the Orson Welles film ETouch of EvilE (1958) which featured Welles both behind and in front of the camera. That movie is often cited as the end of the line noir's rococo tombstone...the film after which noir cou

Hong Kong Dark Cinema

Author : Kim-Mui E. Elaine Chan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030282937
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Hong Kong Dark Cinema written by Kim-Mui E. Elaine Chan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a scholarly investigation of the historical development and contemporary transformation of film noir in today’s Hong Kong. Focusing on the evolvement of cinematic narratives, aesthetics, and techniques, the author balances a deep reading of the multiple filmic plots with a discussion of the cinematic portrayals of gender, romance, identities and power relations. Nuancing the prototypical cinematic form and tragic sense of classical film noir, the recent Hong Kong cinema turns around the classical generic role of film noir at the turn of the century to convey very different messages—joy, hope or love. This book examines how the mainstream cinema, or pre-and-post-Hong Kong cinema in particular, applies a peculiar strategy that makes rooms for the audience to enjoy a pleasure-giving process of reflexivity and also critique the mainstream ideology. With new analytical approaches and angles, this book breaks new ground in offering transcultural and cross-genre analyses on the cinema and its impact in local and international markets. This book is the first major scholarly investigation of the historical development and contemporary transformation of film noir in today’s Hong Kong. Focusing on the evolvement of cinematic narratives, aesthetics, and techniques, the author balances a deep reading of the multiple filmic plots with a refreshing discussion of the cinematic portrayals of gender, romance, identities and power relations. This book also revisits conceptual categories developed by Foucault, Lacan, Derrida and Butler.

Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and New Global Cinema

Author : Gina Marchetti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134179162
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and New Global Cinema written by Gina Marchetti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, with the establishment of the Hong Kong Film Archive and growing scholarly interest in the history of Hong Kong cinema, previously neglected historical documents and difficult-to-access films have offered new research materials. As Hong Kong film history comes into sharper focus, its inextricable links across the decades to Southeast Asia, Korea, Japan, the United States, and to the far reaches of the Chinese diaspora have also become more evident. Hong Kong’s connection with Hollywood involves ties that bring together art cinema and popular genres as well as film festivals and the media marketplace with popular transnational genres. Giving fresh and facsinating insights into the vibrant area of Hong Kong, this exciting new book links Hong Kong with world film culture both within and beyond the commercial Hollywood paradigm. It emphasizes Hong Kong film in relation to other cinema industries, including Hollywood, and demonstrates that Hong Kong film, throughout its history, has challenged, redefined, expanded, and exceeded its borders.

East Asian Film Noir

Author : Chi-Yun Shin
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781780760087
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book East Asian Film Noir written by Chi-Yun Shin and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film noir is often known as a Hollywood genre. But the downbeat sensibility of classic American noir also finds expression in later films from Japan, South Korea and greater China (including Hong Kong) that both participate in and are excluded from circuits of global noir traffic, past and present. This book explores these films and the firmmakers who make them. Looking at a range of examples from the 1950s to the present, it conceptualizes and articulates an internationally situated 'East Asian film noir'. In doing so, it offers fascinating insights into the terms on which national, regional and transnational cinemas conceive artistic expression.

Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity

Author : Edward Dimendberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674261577
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity written by Edward Dimendberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film noir remains one of the most enduring legacies of 1940s and ’50s Hollywood. Populated by double-crossing, unsavory characters, this pioneering film style explored a shadow side of American life during a period of tremendous prosperity and optimism. Edward Dimendberg compellingly demonstrates how film noir is preoccupied with modernity—particularly the urban landscape. The originality of Dimendberg’s approach lies in his examining these films in tandem with historical developments in architecture, city planning, and modern communications systems. He confirms that noir is not simply a reflection of modernity but a virtual continuation of the spaces of the metropolis. He convincingly shows that Hollywood’s dark thrillers of the postwar decades were determined by the same forces that shaped the city itself. Exploring classic examples of film noir such as The Asphalt Jungle, Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, and The Naked City alongside many lesser-known works, Dimendberg masterfully interweaves film history and urban history while perceptively analyzing works by Raymond Chandler, Edward Hopper, Siegfried Kracauer, and Henri Lefebvre. A bold intervention in cultural studies and a major contribution to film history, Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity will provoke debate by cinema scholars, urban historians, and students of modern culture—and will captivate admirers of a vital period in American cinema.

Historical Dictionary of Film Noir

Author : Andrew Spicer
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810873788
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Film Noir written by Andrew Spicer and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-03-19 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film noir_literally 'black cinema'_is the label customarily given to a group of black and white American films, mostly crime thrillers, made between 1940 and 1959. Today there is considerable dispute about what are the shared features that classify a noir film, and therefore which films should be included in this category. These problems are partly caused because film noir is a retrospective label that was not used in the 1940s or 1950s by the film industry as a production category and therefore its existence and features cannot be established through reference to trade documents. The Historical Dictionary of Film Noir is a comprehensive guide that ranges from 1940 to present day neo-noir. It consists of a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, a filmography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on every aspect of film noir and neo-noir, including key films, personnel (actors, cinematographers, composers, directors, producers, set designers, and writers), themes, issues, influences, visual style, cycles of films (e.g. amnesiac noirs), the representation of the city and gender, other forms (comics/graphic novels, television, and videogames), and noir's presence in world cinema. It is an essential reference work for all those interested in this important cultural phenomenon.

Boston Noir 2

Author : Dennis Lehane
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617751367
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Boston Noir 2 written by Dennis Lehane and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In keeping with the tradition of the Noir series, Boston Noir 2 is made up of the works of several celebrated authors whose work is tied together by a common setting. After the massive success of the first Boston Noir, bestselling author Dennis Lehane is back as curator for another anthology of crime stories set in Boston. The Boston Noir 2 collection features reprints of the classic chilling short stories and novel excerpts that brought the world of noir to its knees. Contributors include Pulitzer winners Joyce Carol Oates and John Updike.

Traditions in World Cinema

Author : Linda Badley
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813538747
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Traditions in World Cinema written by Linda Badley and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The core volume in the Traditions in World Cinema series, this book brings together a colourful and wide-ranging collection of world cinematic traditions - national, regional and global - all of which are in need of introduction, investigation and, in some cases, critical reassessment. Topics include: German expressionism, Italian neorealism, French New Wave, British new wave, Czech new wave, Danish Dogma, post-Communist cinema, Brazilian post-Cinema Novo, new Argentine cinema, pre-revolutionary African traditions, Israeli persecution films, new Iranian cinema, Hindi film songs, Chinese wenyi.

Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India

Author : Lalitha Gopalan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030540960
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India written by Lalitha Gopalan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a sustained engagement with contemporary Indian feature films from outside the mainstream, including Aaranaya Kaandam, I.D., Kaul, Chauthi Koot, Cosmic Sex, and Gaali Beeja, to undercut the dominance of Bollywood focused film studies. Gopalan assembles films from Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Trivandrum, in addition to independent productions in Bombay cinema, as a way of privileging understudied works that deserve critical attention. The book uses close readings of films and a deep investigation of film style to draw attention to the advent of digital technologies while remaining fully cognizant of ‘the digital’ as a cryptic formulation for considering the sea change in the global circulation of film and finance. This dual focus on both the techno-material conditions of Indian cinema and the film narrative offers a fulsome picture of changing narratives and shifting genres and styles.

Renegotiating Film Genres in East Asian Cinemas and Beyond

Author : Lin Feng
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303055077X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Renegotiating Film Genres in East Asian Cinemas and Beyond written by Lin Feng and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together nine original chapters to examine genre agency in East Asian cinema within the transnational context. It addresses several urgent and pertinent issues such as the distribution and exhibition practices of East Asian genre films, intra-regional creative flow of screen culture, and genre’s creative response to censorship. The volume expands the scholarly discussion of the rich heritage and fast-changing landscape of filmmaking in East Asian cinemas. Confronting the complex interaction between genres, filmic narrative and aesthetics, film history and politics, and cross-cultural translation, this book not only reevaluates genre’s role in film production, distribution, and consumption, but also tackles several under-explored areas in film studies and transnational cinema, such as the history of East Asian commercial cinema, the East Asian film industry, and cross-media and cross-market film dissemination.

Film Genre Reader IV

Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292745745
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Film Genre Reader IV written by Barry Keith Grant and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From reviews of the third edition: “Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The anthology’s consideration of the advantages and challenges of genre studies, as well as its inclusion of various film genres and methodological approaches, presents a pedagogically useful overview.” —Scope Since 1986, Film Genre Reader has been the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with more than 25,000 copies sold. Barry Keith Grant has again revised and updated the book to reflect the most recent developments in genre study. This fourth edition adds new essays on genre definition and cycles, action movies, science fiction, and heritage films, along with a comprehensive and updated bibliography. The volume includes more than thirty essays by some of film’s most distinguished critics and scholars of popular cinema, including Charles Ramírez Berg, John G. Cawelti, Celestino Deleyto, David Desser, Thomas Elsaesser, Steve Neale, Thomas Schatz, Paul Schrader, Vivian Sobchack, Janet Staiger, Linda Williams, and Robin Wood.

Film Noir

Author : William Luhr
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405145951
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Film Noir written by William Luhr and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film Noir offers new perspectives on this highly popular and influential film genre, providing a useful overview of its historical evolution and the many critical debates over its stylistic elements. Brings together a range of perspectives on a topic that has been much discussed but remains notoriously ill-defined Traces the historical development of the genre, usefully exploring the relations between the films of the 1940s and 1950s that established the "noir" universe and the more recent films in which it has been frequently revived Employs a clear and intelligent writing style that makes this the perfect introduction to the genre Offers a thorough and engaging analysis of this popular area of film studies for students and scholars Presents an in-depth analysis of six key films, each exemplifying important trends of film noir: Murder, My Sweet; Out of the Past; Kiss Me Deadly; The Long Goodbye; Chinatown; and Seven

International Noir

Author : Pettey Homer B. Pettey
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074869112X
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book International Noir written by Pettey Homer B. Pettey and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following World War II, film noir became the dominant cinematic expression of Cold War angst, influencing new trends in European and Asian filmmaking. International Noir examines film noir's influence on the cinematic traditions of Britain, France, Scandinavia, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and India. This book suggests that the film noir style continues to appeal on such a global scale because no other cinematic form has merged style and genre to effect a vision of the disturbing consequences of modernity. International noir has, however, adapted and adopted noir themes and aesthetic elements so that national cinemas can boast an independent and indigenous expression of the genre. Ranging from Japanese silent films and women's films to French, Hong Kong, and Nordic New Waves, this book also calls into question critical assessments of noir in international cinemas. In short, it challenges prevailing film scholarship to renegotiate the concept of noir. Ending with an examination of Hollywood's neo-noir recontextualization of the genre, and post-noir's reinvigorating critique of this aesthetic, International Noir offers Film Studies scholars an in-depth commentary on this influential global cinematic art form, further offering extensive bibliography and filmographies for recommended reading and viewing.