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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449943103321

Autore

Krutnik Frank <1956->

Titolo

In a lonely street [[electronic resource] ] : film noir, genre, masculinity / / Frank Krutnik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1991

ISBN

1-134-97318-7

1-280-60360-7

9786610603602

0-203-13030-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/655

Soggetti

Film noir - United States - History and criticism

Popular culture - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-259) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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;

Sommario/riassunto

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.