Neo-Noir / / ed. by Mark Bould, Greg Tuck, Kathrina Glitre.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bould, Mark,; Feasey, Rebecca,; Freedman, Carl,; Gallafent, Edward,; Glitre, Kathrina,; Gordon, Suzy,; Hanson, Helen,; Hodges, Mike,; Lee, Hyangjin,; Miklitsch, Robert,; Thomas, Deborah,; Tuck, Greg,; Vincendeau, Ginette,; Vint, Sherryl,; Wayne, Mike,; Williams, Linda Ruth,
• HerausgeberIn: Bould, Mark,; Glitre, Kathrina,; Tuck, Greg,
• TeilnehmendeR: Hodges, Mike.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 16 illus.

Neo-noir knows its past. It knows the rules of the game - and how to break them. From Point Blank (1998) to Oldboy (2003), from Get Carter (2000) to 36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004), from Catherine Tramell to Max Payne, neo-noir is a transnational global phenomenon. This wide-ranging collection maps out the terrain, combining genre, stylistic and textual analysis with Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic and industrial approaches. Essays discuss works from the US, UK, France, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and New Zealand; key figures, such as David Lynch, the Coen Brothers, Quentin Tarantino and Sharon Stone; major conventions, such as the femme fatale, paranoia, anxiety, the city and the threat to the self; and the use of sound and colour.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword: 'If Only My Leg Didn't Itch' -- Parallax Views: An Introduction -- 1. Under the Neon Rainbow: Colour and Neo-Noir -- 2. Audio-Noir: Audiovisuality in Neo-Modernist Noir -- 3. Paranoia and Nostalgia: Sonic Motifs and Songs in Neo-Noir -- 4. The End of Work: From Double Indemnity to Body Heat -- 5. Worlds Without Consequence: Two Versions of Film Noir in the 1980s -- 6. From Lonely Streets to Lonely Rooms: Prefiguration, Affective Responses and the Max Payne Single-Player -- 7. The New Lower Depths: Paris in French Neo-Noir Cinema -- 8. The Shadow of Outlaws in Asian Noir: Hiroshima, Hong Kong and Seoul -- 9. British Neo-Noir and Reification: Croupier and Dirty Pretty Things -- 10. Laughter in the Dark: Irony, Black Comedy and Noir in the Films of David Lynch, the Coen Brothers and Quentin Tarantino -- 11. A Woman Scorned: The Neo-Noir Erotic Thriller as Revenge Drama -- 12. Neo-Noir's Fatal Woman: Stardom, Survival and Sharon Stone -- 13. Fatality Revisited: The Problem of 'Anxiety' in Psychoanalytic-Feminist Approaches to Film Noir -- 14. The Thin Men: Anorexic Subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist -- 15. Memento: Pasting Ourselves Together Through Cinema -- Filmography -- Index