Neo-Noir /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 16 illus.
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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

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