Harry H. Kuoshu – författare

This work is an introduction to the cinema of mainland China from the early 1930s to the early 1990s. Emphasizing both film contexts and film texts, this study covers a broad cinematic analysis that includes investigations of cultural, cross-cultural, social, ethnic and political issues. The 15 films include: ""Two Stage Sisters""; ""Hibiscus Town""; ""Farewell My Concubine""; ""Street Angel""; ""Three Women""; ""Human, Woman, Demon""; ""Judou""; ""Girl from Hunan""; ""Sacrificed Youth""; ""Horse Thief""; ""Yellow Earth""; ""Old Well""; ""Red Sorghum""; ""Black Cannon Incident""; and ""Good Morning, Beijing"". Discussions of each film have an introduction, passages from the director's own notes whenever available and a scholarly article.

Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema offers 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 global neo noir maintains a mediascape of references, borrowings, and re-workings and explores various social and cultural issues that constitute this Chinese episode of neo noir. Combining literary explorations of carnival, postmodernism, and post-socialism, Kuoshu advocates for neo noir as a cultural phenomenon that connects filmmakers, film critics, and film audiences rather than an industrial genre.