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Pettey, Homer B. [Author]; Palmer, R. Barton [Author] ; Barton Palmer, R. [Contributor]; Bergstrom, Janet [Contributor]; Bronfen, Elisabeth [Contributor]; Callahan, Vicki [Contributor]; Gabbard, Krin [Contributor]; Miklitsch, Robert [Contributor]; Pettey, Homer B. [Contributor]; Scruggs, Charles [Contributor]; Silver, Alain [Contributor]; Ursini, James [Contributor]

Film Noir

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Film Noir
  • Contains: 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
  • Contributor: Pettey, Homer B. [Author]; Barton Palmer, R. [Contributor]; Bergstrom, Janet [Contributor]; Bronfen, Elisabeth [Contributor]; Callahan, Vicki [Contributor]; Gabbard, Krin [Contributor]; Miklitsch, Robert [Contributor]; Palmer, R. Barton [Author]; Pettey, Homer B. [Contributor]; Scruggs, Charles [Contributor]; Silver, Alain [Contributor]; Ursini, James [Contributor]
  • Published: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
  • Published in: Traditions in American Cinema ; TAC
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (240 p.); 25 B/W illustrations
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9780748691081
  • ISBN: 9780748691081
  • Identifier:
  • RVK notation: AP 53600 : Kriminalfilm, Thriller, Film Noir
  • Keywords: Film noir United States History and criticism ; Film, Media & Cultural Studies ; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General
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  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: 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 on contemporary global media.By employing experimental lighting effects, oblique camera angles, distorted compositions, and shifting points-of-view, film noir’s style both creates and comments upon a morally adumbrated world, where the alienating effects of the uncanny, the fetishistic, and the surreal dominate. What drew original audiences to film noir is an immediate recognition of this modern social and psychological reality. Much of the appeal of film noir concerns its commentary on social anxieties, its cynical view of political and capitalist corruption, and its all-too-brutal depictions of American modernity. This book examines the changing, often volatile shifts in representations of masculinity and femininity, as well as the genre’s complex relationship with Afro-American culture, observable through noir’s musical and sonic experiments.Key FeaturesTraces the history of film noir from its aesthetic antecedents through its mid-century popularization to its influence on contemporary global media Discusses the influence of literary and artistic sources on the development of film noirIncludes extensive bibliographies, filmographies and recommended noir film viewingConcludes with a reflective chapter by Alain Silver and James Ursini on their own influential studies and collections on film noir criticism
  • Access State: Restricted Access | Information to licenced electronic resources of the SLUB