Film Noir /

Film Noir / / Homer B. Pettey, R. Barton Palmer.

Explores the development of film noir as a cultural and artistic phenomenonThis book traces the development of what we know as film noir from the proto-noir elements of Feuillade’s silent French crime series and German Expressionism to the genre’s mid-twentieth century popularization and influence o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
VerfasserIn:
Pettey, Homer B.,
Palmer, R. Barton,
MitwirkendeR:
Barton Palmer, R.,
Bergstrom, Janet,
Bronfen, Elisabeth,
Callahan, Vicki,
Gabbard, Krin,
Miklitsch, Robert,
Pettey, Homer B.,
Scruggs, Charles,
Silver, Alain,
Ursini, James,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2014
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Traditions in American Cinema : TAC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 25 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Introduction: The Noir Turn
  • 1. The Cinema of Uncertainty and the Opacity of Information from Louis Feuillade’s Crime Serials to Film Noir
  • 2. Warning Shadows: German Expressionism and American Film Noir
  • 3. Hard-boiled Tradition and Early Film Noir
  • 4. Cold War Noir
  • 5. Noiring the Pitch: The Conflicted Soundtracks of Out of the Past, The Blue Gardenia and The Long Goodbye
  • 6. Split Screen: Sound/Music in The Stranger/Criss Cross
  • 7. Gender and Noir
  • 8. The Subversive Shade of Black in Film Noir
  • Postscript: A History of Our Writing about Film Noir
  • Selected Book Chapters on Film Noir
  • Selected Film Noir Books
  • Selected Guide to Film Noir
  • Index

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