Film Noir
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:31st May '02
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This excellent overview of Film Noir discusses the celebrated, but also contested, body of films whose history is more extensive and diverse than American black and white crime thrillers of the forties.
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.Lucidly written, Film Noir is an accessible informative and stimulating introduction that has a broad appeal to undergraduates, cineastes, film teachers and researchers.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.
ISBN: 9780582437128
Dimensions: 157mm x 234mm x 12mm
Weight: 448g
264 pages