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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
- 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"
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- Title Film Noir
- Author Andrew Spicer
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 250
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge, Harlow, England
- Date 2002-05-31
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780582437128 / 0582437121
- Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.16 x 0.49 in (23.52 x 15.65 x 1.24 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Film noir - United States - History and, Film noir - Great Britain - History and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002072598
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.436
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