UID:
almafu_9959226787302883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-97318-7
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1-280-60360-7
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9786610603602
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0-203-13030-8
Inhalt:
Discussing the diversity and cultural significance of Film Noir, Krutnik examines films such as The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity and analyses the `tough' thriller in terms of its role in reaffirming a disrupted masculine order.
Anmerkung:
Preliminaries; Contents; 1 Classical Hollywood: film and genre; 2 Genre and the problem of film noir; 3 'Hard-bodied' crime fiction and film noir; 4 Film noir and the popularisation of psychoanalysis; 5 Film noir and America in the 1940's; 6 Masculinity and its discontents; 7 The 'tough' investigative thriller; 8 The 'tough' suspense thriller; 9 The criminal-adventure thriller; 10 A problem in 'algebra': Dead Reckoning and the regimentation of the masculine; Appendix 1 'Hard-boiled' Hollywood: 1940-50; Appendix 2 1940's crime-film cycles; Notes; Index;
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-02629-6
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-02630-X
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Allgemeines
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