Overview

Film noir has been understood as a genre exclusive to Hollywood. But classical US noir's downbeat sensibility also finds expression in later films from Japan, South Korea and China (including Hong Kong) and Taiwan, that have both participated in and been excluded from circuits of global-noir traffic, past and present. East Asian Film Noir is the first book to explore these films and the filmmakers who made them. Looking at a range of examples from the 1950s to the present - including The Crimson Kimono, Brother, Ghost in the Shell, Nowhere to Hide, Duelist- and Rebels of the Neon God - this work conceptualizes and articulates an internationally situated 'East Asian film noir'. In doing so, it raises fascinating questions around the politics of representation, authorial activity, genre and local and cross-cultural reception.

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Author:   Chi-Yun Shin ,  Mark Gallagher (Independent researcher, US)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.367kg
ISBN:  

9781780760094

ISBN 10:   1780760094
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   20 March 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements iv Note on Names and Romanization v Notes on Contributors vi Introduction: A Very Rough Guide to East Asian Film Noir - Mark Gallagher 1 Part One - Japan: From Post-World War Two Crime and Drama to Anime Dystopias 1. Out of the Past: Film Noir, Whiteness and the End of the Monochrome Era in Japanese Cinema' - Daisuke Miyao 27 2. Kurosawa's Noir Quartet: Cinematic Musings on How to Be a Tough Man Dolores Martinez 1111 3. The Japanese Los Angeles of The Crimson Kimono and Brother Suzanne Arakawa 1111 4. Ghost in the Shell: The Noir Instinct - Dan North 1111 Part Two - South Korea: From Postwar Modernity to Crime and Detection on a Global Stage 5. Allegorizing Noir: Violence, Body and Space in the Postwar Korean Film Noir' - Hyun S. Park 1111 6. The True Colors of the 'Action Kid': Seung-wan Ryoo's Urban Film Noir - Kyu Hyun Kim 1111 7. A Mess of Contradictions? Korean Noir in Myung-se Lee's Nowhere to Hide and Duelist Daniel Martin 1111 Part Three - Three Chinas (Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan), Many Noirs 8. From Urban Crime Thriller to Silent Ghost Story: Rebels of the Neon God and Taiwanese Neo-Noir Erin Yu-Tien Huang 9. Film Noir, Hong Kong Cinema and the Limits of Critical Transplant Andy Willis 1111 10. Life is Cheap: Chinese Neo-Noir and the Aesthetics of Disenchantment Philippa Lovatt 1111 11. Tony Leung's Noir Thrillers and Transnational Stardom Mark Gallagher 1111 12. Double Identity: The Stardom of Xun Zhou and the Figure of the Femme Fatale Chi-Yun Shin 1111

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Chi-Yun Shin is Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, Sheffield Hallam University and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Japanese & Korean Cinema. Mark Gallagher is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham.

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