Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema

Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinemaoffers 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 globalneo noirmaintains a mediascape of references, borrowings, and re-workings and explores various social and cultural issues that constitute this Chinese episode ofneo noir. Combining literary explorations of carnival, postmodernism, and post-socialism, Kuoshu advocates forneo noiras a cultural phenomenon that connects filmmakers, film critics, and film audiences rather than an industrial genre.