Umfang:
Online-Ressource (324 p.)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2012 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780813170336
Inhalt:
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title Flourishing in the United States during the 1940s and 50s, the bleak, violent genre of filmmaking known as film noir reflected the attitudes of writers and auteur directors influenced by the events of the turbulent mid-twentieth century. Films such as Force of Evil, Night and the City, Double Indemnity, Laura, The Big Heat, The Killers, Kiss Me Deadly and, more recently, Chinatown and The Grifters are indelibly American. Yet the sources of this genre were found in Germany and France and imported to Hollywood by emigr? filmmakers, who developed them and allow
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Cover; STREET WITH NO NAME; Title; Copyright; To my sister, Annewho must surely remember the timeswe got ready for bed by preparing to watchHis Girl Friday on the late show; CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction; To Name the Thing-Film Noir as Style, as Genre; German Expressionism and the Roots of the Film Noir; Fritz Lang; Robert Siodmak; The Inception of the Film Noir in the French Cinemaof the 1930s; The Film Noir in France in the ImmediatePostwar Years; 1. THE NOIR IN AMERICA; The Noir City; Archetypes-Protagonists; Abraham Polonsky; Jules Dassin; Nicholas Ray; Orson Welles
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2. THE HARD-BOILED FICTION INFLUENCECornell Woolrich; The Private Detective; Humphrey Bogart, Spade, Marlowe,and the Film Noir; The Gangster Figure and the Noir; John Huston; Violence in the Noir; Samuel Fuller; Robert Aldrich; Don Siegel; Sexuality in the Noir; Families in the Noir; Joseph H. Lewis; 3. WOMEN AS SEEN IN THE FILM NOIR; Otto Preminger; 4. NOIR PRODUCTION; Noir Iconography; The Use of Voice-Over Narration; The Flashback Device; Amnesia as a Storytelling Device; The B Noir Production; Documentary Realism in the Noir; Critical and Popular Reception of the Film Noir
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HUAC and the BlacklistFight Pictures; Caper Films; Crime Syndicate Exposes; The Kefauver Crime Hearings; Anthony Mann; Phil Karlson; 5. THE NOIR INFLUENCE ON THE FRENCH NEW WAVE; Jean-Pierre Melville; Epilogue:Comments on the Classic Film Noir and the Neo-Noir; Appendix:Credits of Selected Films Noirs; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780813122434
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Street with No Name A History of the Classic American Film Noir
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
