Film noir_literally'black cinema'_is the label customarily given to a group of black and white
American films, mostly crime thrillers, made between 1940 and 1959. Today there is …

This remarkable collection challenges traditional ways of thinking about the relationship
between genre and gender, understanding their meeting as a mutually transformative …

Hong Kong cinema began attracting international attention in the 1980s. By the early 1990s,
Hong Kong had become" Hollywood East" as its film industry rose to first in the world in per …

This fascinating book begins with a new definition of the gangster film and a challenging
exploration of the Hong Kong and Hollywood screen traditions. Illuminates the way gangster …

PTU is an underappreciated noir masterpiece by one of Hong Kong's most prolific and
commercially successful directors. Johnnie To Kei-fung has been called" the poet of post …

Abstract Press reviews of Hou Hsiao‐Hsien's films appeared in a range of European
magazines at a time when Hou's films were hardly, if at all, available for watching in …

The critical formation of Hong Kong noir has been a conspicuous and ever-growing thread
running through the scholarship on Hong Kong cinema for some time. This essay charts the …

This article investigates the cultural politics and identity discourses in the two East Asian
reproductions of A Better Tomorrow (1986). Rethinking the power dynamics of a …

When the heist goes terribly wrong, the gangsters suspect a mole within their midst. Who
else could have alerted the police about their robbery but a cop masquerading as a …

L'immense panoplie d'ouvrages et de travaux consacrés tant au cinéma qu'au jeu vidéo s'
évertue très souvent à examiner une œuvre quelle qu'elle soit dans son ensemble, ou à …