| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 286 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge film guidebooks |
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Routledge film guidebooks.
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| Contents |
Preface : down these mean streets, again -- Film noir and the culture of internationalism -- Critical debates : genre, gender, race -- Film noir style and the arts of dying -- Fragments of one international noir history |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Film noir -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Film noir
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Film noir
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Film noir.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nieland, Justus, author.
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| LC no. |
2009022509 |
| ISBN |
9780203869680 |
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0203869680 |
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9780415458122 |
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0415458129 |
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9780415458139 |
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0415458137 |
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