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Class, Crime and International Film Noir

2014-04-08 Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis Class, Crime and International Film Noir by : D. Broe

Download or read book Class, Crime and International Film Noir written by D. Broe. This book was released on 2014-04-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Class, Crime and International Film Noir argues that, in its postwar, classical phase, this dark variant of the crime film was not just an American phenomenon. Rather, these seedy tales with their doomed heroes and heroines were popular all over the world including France, Britain, Italy and Japan.

Class, Crime and International Film Noir

2014-01-01 Performing Arts
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Release : 2014-01-01
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Book Synopsis Class, Crime and International Film Noir by : D. Broe

Download or read book Class, Crime and International Film Noir written by D. Broe. This book was released on 2014-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Class, Crime and International Film Noir argues that, in its postwar, classical phase, this dark variant of the crime film was not just an American phenomenon. Rather, these seedy tales with their doomed heroes and heroines were popular all over the world including France, Britain, Italy and Japan.

International Noir

2014-11-11 Performing Arts
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Release : 2014-11-11
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Book Synopsis International Noir by : Homer B. Pettey

Download or read book International Noir written by Homer B. Pettey. This book was released on 2014-11-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from Japanese silent films and women's films to French, Hong Kong, and Nordic New Waves, this book explores the influence of noir on international cinematic traditions and challenges prevailing film scholarship. It includes extensive bibliography and filmographies for recommended reading and viewing.

Film Noir

2009-12-04 Performing Arts
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Release : 2009-12-04
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Book Synopsis Film Noir by : Jennifer Fay

Download or read book Film Noir written by Jennifer Fay. This book was released on 2009-12-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "film noir" still conjures images of a uniquely American malaise: hard-boiled detectives, fatal women, and the shadowy hells of urban life. But from its beginnings, film noir has been an international phenomenon, and its stylistic icons have migrated across the complex geo-political terrain of world cinema. This book traces film noir’s emergent connection to European cinema, its movement within a cosmopolitan culture of literary and cinematic translation, and its postwar consolidation in the US, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. The authors examine how film noir crosses national boundaries, speaks to diverse international audiences, and dramatizes local crimes and the crises of local spaces in the face of global phenomena like world-wide depression, war, political occupation, economic and cultural modernization, decolonization, and migration. This fresh study of film noir and global culture also discusses film noir’s heterogeneous style and revises important scholarly debates about this perpetually alluring genre.

Film Noir

2018-10-08 Performing Arts
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Release : 2018-10-08
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Book Synopsis Film Noir by : Andrew Spicer

Download or read book Film Noir written by Andrew Spicer. This book was released on 2018-10-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, cinéastes, film teachers and researchers.

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