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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785030703321

Autore

Rolls Alistair

Titolo

French and American Noir [[electronic resource] ] : Dark Crossings / / by Alistair Rolls, Deborah Walker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009

ISBN

1-282-67182-0

9786612671821

0-230-24482-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Crime Files

Disciplina

791.43/655

791.43655

Soggetti

America—Literatures

Motion pictures and television

Fiction

Literature, Modern—20th century

European literature

North American Literature

Screen Studies

Twentieth-Century Literature

European Literature

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. 200-221) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Fetishistic noir : Charles Baudelaire and Léo Malet -- Liberation noir : Boris Vian and the série noire (1) -- Allegorical noir : Boris Vian and the série noire (2) -- Noir strangulation (1) : Terry Stewart and Vernon Sullivan -- Noir strangulation (2) : Amélie Nothomb and intertextuality -- Jazz : classic French film noir as trans-Atlantic exchange -- Fatal(e) crossings : figures of the feminine in French and American film noir -- Americans in Paris -- From honest thief to media sociopath -- Double-crossings : reversing the remake.

Sommario/riassunto

A longstanding misconception surrounding the term French noir suggests that the post-war French thriller and film noir were a



development of, or response to, a pre-existing American tradition. This book challenges this misconception, examining the complexity of this trans-Atlantic exchange and refocusing debate to include a Franco-French lineage.