Craziness and carnival in neo-noir Chinese cinema / Harry H. Kuoshu.
2021
PN1995.9.F54
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Craziness and carnival in neo-noir Chinese cinema / Harry H. Kuoshu.
ISBN
9783030730819 (electronic bk.)
3030730816 (electronic bk.)
9783030730802 (hardback)
3030730816 (electronic bk.)
9783030730802 (hardback)
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
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English
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10.1007/978-3-030-73081-9 doi
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PN1995.9.F54
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.43/655
Summary
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).
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Chinese literature and culture in the world.
Chinese literature and culture in the world.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.