More Than Night Film Noir in Its Contexts

Name: More Than Night Film Noir in Its Contexts
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ISBN: 9780520254022

ISBN-10: 0520254023

ISBN-13: 9780520254022

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: James Naremore

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"Film noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50s--melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. James Naremore's prize-winning book discusses these pictures, but also shows that the central term is more complex and paradoxical than we realize. It treats noir as a term in criticism, as an expression of artistic modernism, as a symptom of Hollywood censorship and politics, as a market strategy, as an evolving style, and as an idea that circulates through all the media. This new and expanded edition ofMore Than Nightcontains an additional chapter on film noir in the twenty-first century.

Book details

List price: $33.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/14/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface to the 2008 Edition


Acknowledgments


Introduction: This Is Where I Came In



The History of an Idea


Noir Is Born: Paris, 1946-1959


Darkness Everywhere



Modernism and Blood Melodrama: Three Case Studies


Believing in Nothing


Sympathy for the Devil


The Death Chamber



From Dark Films to Black Lists: Censorship and Politics


Bourbon with a Bourbon Chaser


The Snakes Are Loose


After 1947



Low Is High: Budgets and Critical Discrimination


B Pictures versus Intermediates


Post-B Pictures



Old Is New: Styles of Noir


Black and White and Red


Parody, Pastiche, Fashion



The Other Side of the Street


Asia


Latin America


Africa



The Noir Mediascape



Noir in the Twenty-first Century


Legends and Lists


Further Research


More Styles of Noir


Noir Never Dies


Notes


Bibliography


Index