Hong Kong Crime Films
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-2177-2 (ISBN)
Hong Kong Crime Films is the first book detailing the post-war history of the genre before the release of John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow (1986), the film that put Hong Kong action-crime on the global map. Focusing on what it calls the mode of ‘criminal realism’ in the crime film, the book shows how depictions of Hong Kong’s social reality (including crime) were for decades anxiously policed by colonial censors, and how crime films tended (and still tend) to confound and transgress critical definitions of realism.
Drawing on extensive archival research, Hong Kong Crime Films covers several neglected topics in the study of Hong Kong cinema, such as the evolving generic landscape of the crime film prior to the 1980s, the influence of colonial film censorship on the genre, and the prominence and contestation of "realism" in the local history of the crime film.
Kristof Van den Troost is Assistant Professor at the Centre for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
List of Figures
Tables
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
Introduction: Criminal Realism
Part I: The Generic Landscape of the Post-War Hong Kong Crime Film, 1947-1969
Gangsters and Unofficial Justice Fighters: Realist Lunlipian versus Action-Adventure Films
Detectives and Suspense Thrillers: Remaking Hitchcock in Hong Kong
Intermezzo: Censorship of Cinematic Crime and Violence in Colonial Hong Kong
Part II: The Modern Hong Kong Crime Film, Criminal Realism and Hong Kong Identity, 1969-1986
A New Form of Criminal Realism
Crime Films and Hong Kong Identity
The New Wave, Critical Discourse and Deepening Localisation
Afterword: The Uncertain Present and Future of Criminal Realism in Hong Kong
Glossary
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.05.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 27 black and white illustrations, 1 black and white table |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-2177-2 / 1399521772 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-2177-2 / 9781399521772 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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