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Film Noir (Hardcover)
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Film Noir (Hardcover)
Series: Inside Film
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Film Noir is an overview of an often celebrated, but also
contested, body of films. It discusses film noir as a cultural
phenomenon whose history is more extensive and diverse than
American black and white crime thrillers of the forties. An
extended Background Chapter situates film noir within its cultural
context, describing its origin in German Expressionism, French
Poetic Realism and in developments within American genres, the
gangster/crime thriller, horror and the Gothic romance and its
possible relationship to changes in American society. Five chapters
are devoted to 'classic' film noir (1940-59): chapters explore its
contexts of production and reception, its visual style, and its
narrative patterns and themes chapters on character types and star
performances elucidate noir's complex construction of gender with
its weak, ambivalent males and predatory femmes fatales and also
provide a detailed analysis of three noir auteurs, - Anthony Mann,
Robert Siodmak and Fritz Lang Three chapters investigate 'neo-noir'
and British film noir: chapters trace the complex evolution of
'neo-noir' in American cinema, from the modernist critiques of
Night Moves and Taxi Driver, to the postmodern hybridity of
contemporary noir including Seven, Pulp Fiction and Memento the
final chapter surveys the development of British film noir, a
significant and virtually unknown cinema, stretching from the
thirties to Mike Hodges' Croupier Films discussed include both
little known examples and seminal works such as Double Indemnity,
Scarlet Street, Kiss Me Deadly and Touch of Evil. A final section
provides a guide to further reading, an extensive bibliography and
a list of over 500 films referred to in the text. Lucidly written,
Film Noir is an accessible, informative and stimulating
introduction that will have a broad appeal to undergraduates,
cineastes, film teachers and researchers.
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