Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema

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by Harry H. Kuoshu

Type

Essays

Subject

Countries > China

Keywords

China, film noir, neo-noir

Publishing date

2021

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

Collection

Chinese Literature and Culture in the World

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 169 pages
6 x 8 ½ inches (15 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-3-030-73080-2

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the Author:
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).

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