- Springer International Publishing
- 2020
- Taschenbuch
- 256 Seiten
- ISBN 9783030282950
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
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