Description: Title: Film Noir Author: Spicer, Andrew Publisher: Routledge Binding: Hardcover Pages: 260 Dimensions: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d Product Weight: 1.2 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781138174573 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 changes in American society. Five chapters are devoted to 'classic' film noir (1940-59): chapters explore its contexts of production and reception, its visual style, and its narrative patterns and themes chapters on character types and star performances elucidate noir's complex construction of gender with its weak, ambivalent males and predatory femmes fatales and also provide a detailed analysis of three noir auteurs, - Anthony Mann, Robert Siodmak and Fritz Lang Three chapters investigate 'neo-noir' and British film noir: chapters trace the complex evolution of 'neo-noir' in American cinema, from the modernist critiques of Night Moves and Taxi Driver, to the postmodern hybridity of contemporary noir including Seven, Pulp Fiction and Memento the final chapter surveys the development of British film noir, a significant and virtually unknown cinema, stretching from the thirties to Mike Hodges' Croupier Films discussed include both little known examples and seminal works such as Double Indemnity, Scarlet Street, Kiss Me Deadly and Touch of Evil. A final section provides a guide to further reading, an extensive bibliography and a list of over 500 films referred to in the text. Lucidly written, Film Noir is an accessible, informative and stimulating introduction that will have a broad appeal to undergraduates, cin?astes, film teachers and researchers. Authorized Dealer Stock Photo- Actual Cover May Vary Ships Fast From The USA!
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Book Title: Routledge
Number of Pages: 260 Pages
Publication Name: Film Noir
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: Film / General, Media Studies, Film / Genres / Crime
Item Weight: 18.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Performing Arts, Social Science
Item Length: 9.5 in
Author: Andrew Spicer
Series: Inside Film Ser.
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
