Philosophy of Neo-Noir

Name: Philosophy of Neo-Noir
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ISBN: 9780813192178

ISBN-10: 081319217X

ISBN-13: 9780813192178

Edition: 2009

Authors: Mark T. Conard

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Film noir is a classic genre characterized by visual elements such as tilted camera angles, skewed scene compositions, and an interplay between darkness and light. Common motifs include crime and punishment, the upheaval of traditional moral values, and a pessimistic stance on the meaning of life and on the place of humankind in the universe. Spanning the 1940s and 1950s, the classic film noir era saw the release of many of Hollywood's best-loved studies of shady characters and shadowy underworlds, includingDouble Indemnity,The Big Sleep,Touch of Evil,andThe Maltese Falcon. Neo-noir is a somewhat loosely defined genre of films produced after the classic noir era that display the visual or…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 2/20/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 222
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Mark T. Conard is assistant professor of philosophy at Marymount College. He is the series editor of The Philosophy of Popular Culture series and the editor of numerous books, including "The Philosophy of Film Noir," "The Philosophy of Neo-Noir," and "The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese,"



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Subjectivity, Knowledge, and Human Nature in Neo-Noir


Space, Time, and Subjectivity in Neo-Noir Cinema



Blade Runner and Sartre: The Boundaries of Humanity



John Locke, Personal Identity, and Memento



Problems of Memory and Identity in Neo-Noir's Existentialist Antihero




Justice, Guilt, and Redemption: Morality in Neo-Noir


The Murder of Moral Idealism: Kant and the Death of Ian Campbell in The Onion Field



Justice and Moral Corruption in A Simple Plan



"Saint" Sydney: Atonement and Moral Inversion in Hard Eight



Reservoir Dogs: Redemption in a Postmodern World




Elements of Neo-Noir


The Dark Sublimity of Chinatown



The Human Comedy Perpetuates Itself: Nihilism and Comedy in Coen Neo-Noir



The New Sincerity of Neo-Noir: The Example of The Man Who Wasn't There<c>R. Barton Palmer</c><f>Palmer, R. Barton</f>



"Anything Is Possible Here": Capitalism, Neo-Noir, and Chinatown



Sunshine Noir: Postmodernism and Miami Vice



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