Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema

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Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema is written by Harry H. Kuoshu and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3030730816 (ISBN 10) and 9783030730819 (ISBN 13).

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.