1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777754503321

Autore

Dixon Wheeler W. <1950->

Titolo

Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-4744-6776-8

0-7486-5361-9

1-282-08793-2

9786612087936

0-7486-3031-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

791.43655

Soggetti

Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism

Film noir -- United States

Film noir

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The Dream of Return; CHAPTER 2 The Postwar Bubble; CHAPTER 3 1950's Death Trip; CHAPTER 4 The Flip Side of the 1960's; CHAPTER 5 The Failure of Culture; CHAPTER 6 Living in Fear; Appendix: A Gallery of Classic Noir 'Heavies'; Works Cited and Consulted; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia is an overview of 20th- and 21st-century noir and fatalist film practice from 1945 onwards. The book demonstrates the ways in which American cinema has inculcated a climate of fear in our daily lives, as reinforced, starting in the 1950's, by television, and later videocassettes, the web, and the Internet, to create, by the early 21st century a hypersurveillant atmosphere in which no one can avoid the barrage of images that continually assault our senses. The book begins with the return of American soldiers from World War II, 'liberated' from war in the Paci



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785284103321

Autore

Munro Martin

Titolo

Different drummers [[electronic resource] ] : rhythm and race in the Americas / / Martin Munro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-66082-9

9786612660825

0-520-94740-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Music of the African diaspora ; ; 14

Disciplina

780.89/960729

Soggetti

Black people - Caribbean Area - Music - History and criticism

African Americans - Music - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Slaves to the Rhythm -- 1. Beating Back Darkness -- 2. Rhythm, Creolization, and Conflict in Trinidad -- 3. Rhythm, Music, and Literature in the French Caribbean -- 4. James Brown, Rhythm, and Black Power -- Conclusion. Listening to New World History -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. Martin Munro's groundbreaking work traces the central-and contested-role of music in shaping identities, politics, social history, and artistic expression. Starting with enslaved African musicians, Munro takes us to Haiti, Trinidad, the French Caribbean, and to the civil rights era in the United States. Along the way, he highlights such figures as Toussaint Louverture, Jacques Roumain, Jean Price-Mars, The Mighty Sparrow, Aimé Césaire, Edouard Glissant, Joseph Zobel, Daniel Maximin, James Brown, and Amiri Baraka. Bringing to light new connections among black cultures, Munro shows how rhythm has been both a persistent marker of race as well as a dynamic force for change at virtually every major turning point in black New World history.