Hong Kong Dark Cinema Film Noir, Re-conceptions, and Reflexivity /

• Main Author: Chan, Kim-Mui E. Elaine (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: East Asian Popular Culture
• Subjects: Motion pictures-Asia.; Ethnology-Asia.; Film genres.; Popular Culture.; Motion pictures.; Asian Cinema and TV.; Asian Culture.; Genre.; Popular Culture .; Film Theory.

'Hong Kong Dark Cinema is a highly original and significant rethinking of film noir and neo-noir in Hong Kong film. Chan's detailed studies of key films are compelling accounts of the ways film directors have used narrative form and film style to explore the interrelationship of Hong Kong...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Film Noir, Crisis and Politics of Identity
• 3. The Private Eye Blues: A New Spectator-Screen Relationship
• 4. City of Glass: a Temporal Character of Plot
• 5. Happy Together: Reversing the Archetypal Roles
• 6. Swordsman II: Performance and Performativity
• 7. Conclusion.