Film Noir

Name: Film Noir
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ISBN: 9780582437128

ISBN-10: 0582437121

ISBN-13: 9780582437128

Edition: 2002

Authors: Andrew Spicer

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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…

Book details

List price: $84.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/31/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.21" long x 1.42" tall
Weight: 0.880



Preface and Acknowledgements


List of photographs



The Background to Film Noir



Conditions of Production and Reception



Noir Style



Themes and Narrative Strategies



Gender in Film Noir: Character Types and Performers



The Noir Auteur



Neo-Noir 1: Modernist Film Noir



Neo-Noir 2: Postmodern Film Noir



British Film Noir


Further Reading


Bibliography


Filmography


Index of Names


Index of Films