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Hong Kong Dark Cinema - Film Noir, Re-conceptions, and Reflexivity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Hong Kong Dark Cinema - Film Noir, Re-conceptions, and Reflexivity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: East Asian Popular Culture
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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.
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