Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Notes on the Contributors xi
6. Introduction: Hong Kong Neo-Noir 1
7. PART ONE. SEEDS OF NOIR IN HONG KONG CINEMA
8. Chapter 1 ‘A Rose by Any Other Name’: Wong Tin-lam’s The Wild, Wild Rose as Melodrama Musical Noir Hybrid 13
9. Chapter 2 Black and Red: Post-War Hong Kong Noir and its Interrelation with Progressive Cinema, 1947–57 30
10. Chapter 3 Sword, Fist or Gun? The 1970s Origins of Contemporary Hong Kong Noir 51
11. PART TWO. NEO-NOIR FILMS IN CLOSE-UP
12. Chapter 4 Doubled Indemnity: Fruit Chan and the Meta-Fictions of Hong Kong Neo-Noir 77
13. Chapter 5 Running on Karma: Hong Kong Noir and the Political Unconscious 97
14. Chapter 6 Beyond Hypothermia: Cool Women Killers in Hong Kong Cinema 118
15. Chapter 7 Tech-Noir: A Sub-Genre May not Exist in Hong Kong Science Fiction Films 140
16. PART THREE. COSMOPOLITAN CITYSPACE AND NEO-NOIR
17. Chapter 8 Location Filmmaking and the Hong Kong Crime Film: Anatomy of a Scene 159
18. Chapter 9 Running Out of Time, Hard-Boiled and 24-Hour Cityspace 178
19. Chapter 10 Exiled in Macau: Hong Kong Neo-Noir and Paradoxical Lyricism 198
20. Chapter 11 The Tentacles of History: Shinjuku Incident’s Return of the Repressed 216
21. Bibliography 233
22. Filmography 245
23. Index 254