Craziness And Carnival In Neo Noir Chinese Cinema

Author : Harry H. Kuoshu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030730824

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Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema by Harry H. Kuoshu Pdf

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).

Author : Harry H. Kuoshu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030730819

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Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema by Harry H. Kuoshu Pdf

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.

Author : Corey Schultz,Cecília Mello
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000986235

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Chinese Film in the Twenty-First Century by Corey Schultz,Cecília Mello Pdf

This book examines Chinese film in the twenty-first century. Organized around the themes "movements," "genres," and "intermedia," it reflects on how Chinese cinema has changed, adapted, and evolved over past decades and prognosticates as to its future trajectories. It considers how established film genres in China have adapted and transformed themselves, and discusses current shifts in documentary filmmaking, the ethos and practices of "grassroots intellectual" independent filmmakers, and the adaption of foreign film genres to serve the ideological and political needs of the present. It also explores how film is drawing on the socio-historical and political contexts of the past to create new cinematic discourses and the ways film is providing a voice to previously marginalised ethnic groups. In addition, the book analyses the influences of past aesthetic traditions on the creative and artistic expressions of twenty-first-century films and cinema’s relation to other media forms, including folktales, moving image installations, architecture, and painting. Throughout, the book assesses how Chinese films have been conceptualized, examined, and communicated domestically and abroad and emphasizes the importance of new directions in Chinese film, thus highlighting the plurality, vitality, and hybridity of Chinese cinema in the twenty-first century.

Author : Zhou Xuelin
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9622098495

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Young Rebels in Contemporary Chinese Cinema by Zhou Xuelin Pdf

In the 1980s, a new type of central character emerged in contemporary Chinese films - angry and alienated youth. Filmmakers treated youth as a separate category and showed them in urban situations behaving in unconventional and socially rebellious ways. Young Rebels in Contemporary Chinese Cinema looks for evidence in films that exemplify this trend.

Author : Jinhua Dai
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 1433158930

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Chinese Cinema Culture by Jinhua Dai Pdf

From her early film studies to her most recent critiques of contemporary pop culture, Chinese Cinema Culture: A Scene in the Fog presents Dai Jinhua's multiple theoretical moves toward writing difference into the Euro-American discourses current in China today; it is an account of both her interrogation of mainstream Western theories and her eventual flight from them. She searches for a theoretical strategy that enables her to narrate critically the intellectual and gendered film history and culture of the post-Mao and post-Deng eras without sacrificing it to the orientalizing gaze of the West. Her work demonstrates brilliant insights into China's cinema tradition that is inseparable from both the political legacy of Maoism and current postcolonial order of cultural knowledge. This book includes 11 essays organized in three parts and one dialogue on Chinese cinema culture as the afterword.

Author : Nicholas Thomas,James Vinson,Samantha Cook
Publisher : Saint James Press
Page : 1142 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015035312001

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International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers: Films by Nicholas Thomas,James Vinson,Samantha Cook Pdf

Greatly revises and expands the 1984 first edition of Volume one of the astute and elegant five-volume reference to the world's most significant films and filmmakers. One hundred new films have been added, bringing the total to 650, arranged in crisp, clean entries on large 81/2x11"pages, and illustrated with luminous stills. In addition to complete production credits, cast lists, and excellent select bibliographies, each entry includes an expository essay by a significant critic, the essays being models of thoughtful, unpretentious scholarship and love of film. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Raymond Borde,Etienne Chaumeton
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 087286412X

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A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953) by Raymond Borde,Etienne Chaumeton Pdf

This first book published on film noir established the genre--a classic, at last in translation.

Author : Clive Davies
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781909394063

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Spinegrinder by Clive Davies Pdf

First came video and more recently high definition home entertainment, through to the internet with its streaming videos and not strictly legal peer-to-peer capabilities. With so many sources available, today’s fan of horror and exploitation movies isn’t necessarily educated on paths well-trodden — Universal classics, 1950s monster movies, Hammer — as once they were. They may not even be born and bred on DAWN OF THE DEAD. In fact, anyone with a bit of technical savvy (quickly becoming second nature for the born-clicking generation) may be viewing MYSTICS IN BALI and S.S. EXPERIMENT CAMP long before ever hearing of Bela Lugosi or watching a movie directed by Dario Argento. In this world, H.G. Lewis, so-called “godfather of gore,” carries the same stripes as Alfred Hitchcock, “master of suspense.” SPINEGRINDER is one man’s ambitious, exhaustive and utterly obsessive attempt to make sense of over a century of exploitation and cult cinema, of a sort that most critics won’t care to write about. One opinion; 8,000 reviews (or thereabouts.

Author : Carol Borden,Chris Szego,Ian Driscoll
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780557958399

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The Cultural Gutter by Carol Borden,Chris Szego,Ian Driscoll Pdf

Science fiction, fantasy, comics, romance, genre movies, games all drain into the Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful articles about disreputable art-media and genres that are a little embarrassing. Irredeemable. Worthy of Note, but rolling like errant pennies back into the gutter. The Cultural Gutter is dangerous because we have a philosophy. We try to balance enthusiasm with clear-eyed, honest engagement with the material and with our readers. This book expands on our mission with 10 articles each from science fiction/fantasy editor James Schellenberg, comics editor and publisher Carol Borden, romance editor Chris Szego, screen editor Ian Driscoll and founding editor and former games editor Jim Munroe.

Author : Dana Stevens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501134203

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Camera Man by Dana Stevens Pdf

They were calling it the Twentieth Century -- "She is a little animal, surely" -- "He's my son, and I'll break his neck any way I want to" -- "The locomotive of juveniles" -- A little hell-raising Huck Finn -- The boy who couldn't be damaged -- "Make me laugh, Keaton" -- Speed mania in the kingdom of shadows -- Pancakes at Childs -- Comique -- Roscoe -- Brooms -- Mabel at the wheel -- Famous players in famous plays -- Home, made -- Rice, shoes, and real estate -- The shadow stage -- Battle-scarred risibilities -- One for you, one for me -- The "darkie shuffle" -- The collapsing façade -- Grief slipped in -- The road through the mountain -- Not a drinker, a drunk -- Old times -- The coming thing in entertainment -- Coda: Eleanor.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011280554

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International Who's who in Music by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sheri Chinen Biesen
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0801882184

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Blackout by Sheri Chinen Biesen Pdf

Sheri Chinen Biesen challenges conventional thinking on the origins of film noir and finds the genre's roots in the political, social and historical conditions of Hollywood during the Second World War.

Author : Karen Burroughs Hannsberry
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 797 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476604835

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Bad Boys by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry Pdf

The film noir male is an infinitely watchable being, exhibiting a wide range of emotions, behaviors, and motivations. Some of the characters from the film noir era are extremely violent, such as Neville Brand’s Chester in D.O.A. (1950), whose sole pleasure in life seems to come from inflicting pain on others. Other noirs feature flawed authority figures, such as Kirk Douglas’s Jim McLeod in Detective Story (1951), controlled by a rigid moral code that costs him his marriage and ultimately his life. Others present ruthless crime bosses, hapless males whose lives are turned upside down because of their ceaseless longing for a woman, and even courageous men on the right side of the law. The private and public lives of more than ninety actors who starred in the films noirs of the 1940s and 1950s are presented here. Some of the actors, such as Humphrey Bogart, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Mitchum, Raymond Burr, Fred MacMurray, Jack Palance and Mickey Rooney, enjoyed great renown, while others, like Gene Lockhart, Moroni Olsen and Harold Vermilyea, were less familiar, particularly to modern audiences. An appendix focuses on the actors who were least known but frequently seen in minor roles.

Author : Richard Abel,Rick R. Altman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253108705

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The Sounds of Early Cinema by Richard Abel,Rick R. Altman Pdf

The Sounds of Early Cinema is devoted exclusively to a little-known, yet absolutely crucial phenomenon: the ubiquitous presence of sound in early cinema. "Silent cinema" may rarely have been silent, but the sheer diversity of sound(s) and sound/image relations characterizing the first 20 years of moving picture exhibition can still astonish us. Whether instrumental, vocal, or mechanical, sound ranged from the improvised to the pre-arranged (as in scripts, scores, and cue sheets). The practice of mixing sounds with images differed widely, depending on the venue (the nickelodeon in Chicago versus the summer Chautauqua in rural Iowa, the music hall in London or Paris versus the newest palace cinema in New York City) as well as on the historical moment (a single venue might change radically, and many times, from 1906 to 1910). Contributors include Richard Abel, Rick Altman, Edouard Arnoldy, Mats Björkin, Stephen Bottomore, Marta Braun, Jean Châteauvert, Ian Christie, Richard Crangle, Helen Day-Mayer, John Fullerton, Jane Gaines, André Gaudreault, Tom Gunning, François Jost, Charlie Keil, Jeff Klenotic, Germain Lacasse, Neil Lerner, Patrick Loughney, David Mayer, Domi-nique Nasta, Bernard Perron, Jacques Polet, Lauren Rabinovitz, Isabelle Raynauld, Herbert Reynolds, Gregory A. Waller, and Rashit M. Yangirov.

Author : Geoff Mayer,Brian McDonnell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313038662

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Encyclopedia of Film Noir by Geoff Mayer,Brian McDonnell Pdf

When viewers think of film noir, they often picture actors like Humphrey Bogart playing characters like Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, the film based on the book by Dashiell Hammett. Yet film noir is a genre much richer. The authors first examine the debate surrounding the parameters of the genre and the many different ways it is defined. They discuss the Noir City, its setting and backdrop, and also the cultural (WWII) and institutional (the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, and the Production Code Administration) influences on the subgenres. An analysis of the low budget and series film noirs provides information on those cult classics. With over 200 entries on films, directors, and actors, the Encyclopedia of Film Noir is the most complete resource for film fans, students, and scholars.