East Asian Film Noir: Transnational Encounters and Intercultural Dialogue (World Cinema) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780760094 ISBN 13: 9781780760094

Publisher: I.B. Tauris, 2015

Synopsis

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 greater China (including Hong Kong) and Taiwan that have both participated in and been excluded from circuits of global-noir traffic, past and present. Noir is a form of generic expression, an international filmic sensibility and a discourse loosely joining innumerable texts and a range of production and reception phenomena. However defined and categorized, the genre offers a compelling frame through which to view individual works, looming political and cultural contexts, film industry and reception activity, and wider circuits and frictions of global screen-media flow.

This anthology looks at a range of East Asian films from the 1950s to the present – including The Crimson Kimono, Brother, Ghost in the Shell, Nowhere to Hide, Duelist¬ and Rebels of the Neon Go d - that have been explicitly framed as film noir or East Asian noir, or that acquire legibility as noir texts through reception discourse and other critical activity. Contributors look at historical and contemporary cases to understand the terms on which national, regional and transnational cinemas conceive artistic expression. Their conceptualization and articulation of an internationally situated 'East Asian film noir' helps raise questions around the politics of representation, authorial activity, generic and modal positioning and local and cross-cultural reception.

About this title

About the Author:

Chi-Yun Shin is Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, UK and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema.

Mark Gallagher is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1780760094
• ISBN 13: 9781780760094
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Shin Chi-Yun, Gallagher Mark