| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 229 pages) |
| Series |
Crime files series |
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Crime files series.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Fetishistic noir : Charles Baudelaire and Léo Malet -- Liberation noir : Boris Vian and the série noire (1) -- Allegorical noir : Boris Vian and the série noire (2) -- Noir strangulation (1) : Terry Stewart and Vernon Sullivan -- Noir strangulation (2) : Amélie Nothomb and intertextuality -- Jazz : classic French film noir as trans-Atlantic exchange -- Fatal(e) crossings : figures of the feminine in French and American film noir -- Americans in Paris -- From honest thief to media sociopath -- Double-crossings : reversing the remake |
| Summary |
There is a longstanding misconception surrounding the term French noir, according to which the post-war French thriller and film noir were merely a development of, or response to, a pre-existing American tradition. This book aims to challenge this understanding of French noir, at once examining the complexity of this transatlantic exchange and refocusing debate to include a Franco-French lineage, especially in the case of French noir fiction. The result is a study of a 'genre' whose tendency is towards reflexivity and self parody. Where noir is keenly conscious of its own narrative structure, French noir is a celebration of its own French ancestry. Baudelaire is not simply a pioneer or forefather; instead, he lives on in twentieth-century French noir as a prose poetics. Sartre's Existentialism is not merely an accompanying philosophy to noir's mean streets but a crucial intertext, as relevant to the fiction and cinema of the 1990s and beyond as to the thrillers of the immediate post-war years. With French and American Noir, Rolls and Walker hope to put the French back into French noir |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-221) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Film noir -- France -- History and criticism
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Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism
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Noir fiction -- History and criticism
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Noir fiction, American -- History and criticism
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French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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American fiction
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Film noir
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French fiction
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Noir fiction
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Noir fiction, American
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Kriminalroman
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Film noir
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France
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United States
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Frankreich
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Walker-Morrison, Deborah, author
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| ISBN |
9780230244825 |
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0230244823 |
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1349358657 |
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9781349358656 |
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