Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema (Hardcover)

Preface

1.      Introduction: Crazy Stone Phenomenon and Chinese Neo-Noir Comedies

1.       Black Carnival: The Stone Phenomenon

2.       Dog and King: To Configure Craziness

3.       Darkness: Black Humor, Film Noir and Neo-noir

4.       Modernity: Modernism, Postmodernism and Post-socialism

5.       Laughter: Carnival Revelry and Darkness

6.       Nihilism, Cynicism and Chinese Neo-noir

2.      Prelude: Rehumanization Craziness and Traditional Noir

1.       “Modernist” Craziness

2.       Desperate Songstress: Cool, Rocking Darkness

3.       Desperation: Self-chasing and Existential Modernism

4.       Obsession: Activating Cultural Psychoanalysis

3.      Discourses: Crazy Stone Dropped in a “Postmodern” Pond

1.       Postmodernism

2.       Grassroots

3.       Carnival

4.        Egao (Mischievous parody) and Shanzhai (Copycatting)

 

4.      Films: Because of Crazy Stone

1.       Lost & Found: Darkness for Sale

2.        Stone Hitting on Swords: A “Postmodern” Masquerade

i.         The Second Best: To Uncrown National Heroes

ii.         Almost Perfect: A Doomed Search

iii.       A Simple Noodle Story: Bright-color, Neo-noir Profanity

3.       Happy: Idealism, Formalism and Bitter Laughter

4.       Crazy Racer: To Build a Ning Hao Brand 

5.       Crazy Stupid Thieves: Connections with Hong Kong

 

       5.    Dual Retrievals of Cinematic Craziness: A Coda

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