Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:
Nietzsche and the meaning and definition of noir / Mark T. Conrad -- A darker shade: realism in neo-noir / Jason Holt -- Moral clarity and practical reason in film noir / Aeon J. Skoble -- Cherchez la femme fatale: the mother of film noir / Read Mercer Schuchardt -- From Sherlock Holmes to the hard-boiled detective in film noir / Jerold J. Abrams -- Film noir and the meaning of life / Steven M. Sanders -- The horizon of disenchantment: film noir, Camus, and the vicissitudes of descent / Alan Woolfolk -- Symbolism, meaning, and nihilism in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp fiction / Mark T. Conard -- Film noir and the Frankfurt School: America as wasteland in Edgar Ulmer's Detour / Paul A. Cantor -- Knowledge, morality, and tragedy in The killers and Out of the past / Ian Jarvie -- Moral man in the dark city: film noir, the postwar religious revival, and The accused / R. Barton Palmer -- On reason and passion in The Maltese falcon / Deborah Knight -- Ride the pink horse: money, mischance, murder, and the monads of film noir / Alan Silver.