UID:
almahu_9949386195302882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780203730034
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0203730038
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9781351396837
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1351396838
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in film studies
Content:
This book combines film studies with urban theory in a spatial exploration of twentieth century Los Angeles. Configured through the dark lens of noir, the author examines an alternate urban history of Los Angeles forged by the fictional modes of detective fiction, film noir and neo noir. Dark portrayals of the city are analyzed in Raymond Chandler's crime fiction through to key films like Double Indemnity (1944) and The End of Violence (1997). By employing these fictional elements as the basis for historicising the city's unrivalled urban form, the analysis demonstrates an innovative approach to urban historiography. Revealing some of the earliest tendencies of postmodern expression in Hollywood cinema, this book will be of great relevance to students and researchers working in the fields of film, literature, cultural and urban studies. It will also be of interest to scholars researching histories of Los Angeles and the American noir imagination.
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Los Angeles Noirscapes -- Part I Approaching the Metropolis -- 1 From Modern Metropolis to Postmodern Urbanism -- 2 Hard-Boiled Boulevards -- Part II Los Angeles -- Between the Screen and the Streets -- 3 City of Silhouettes -- 4 Noirscapes of Motion -- 5 Neo Noirscape of Nostalgia -- 6 Through a Glass Darkly: Global Los Angeles and Postmodern Noirscapes at the End of the Twentieth Century -- Conclusion -- Appendix I Classic Film Noirs (1940-1960) Featuring Bunker Hill in Location Cinematography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Maher, Sean. Film noir and Los Angeles. New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 ISBN 1138304565
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138304567
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203730034
