1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248181303316

Autore

Naremore James

Titolo

More than night : film noir in its contexts / / James Naremore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

1-282-35939-8

9786612359392

0-520-93445-8

Edizione

[Second edition..]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (404 pages)

Disciplina

791.43/655 22

Soggetti

Film noir - History and criticism

Film noir - Influence

Film noir

Motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface to the 2008 edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: This Is Where I Came In -- 1. The History of an Idea -- 2. Modernism and Blood Melodrama: Three Case Studies -- 3. From Dark Films to Black Lists: Censorship and Politics -- 4. Low Is High: Budgets and Critical Discrimination -- 5. Old Is New: Styles of Noir -- 6. The Other Side of the Street -- 7. The Noir Mediascape -- 8. Noir in the Twenty-first Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Film and Broadcast Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Film noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940's and '50's-melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. James Naremore's prize-winning book discusses these pictures, but also shows that the central term is more complex and paradoxical than we realize. It treats noir as a term in criticism, as an expression of artistic modernism, as a symptom of Hollywood censorship and politics, as a market strategy, as an evolving style, and as an idea that circulates through all the media. This new and expanded edition of More Than Night contains an additional chapter on film noir in the twenty-first century.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792747803321

Titolo

Mexican literature : a history / / edited by David William Foster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , 1994

©1994

ISBN

0-292-73397-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (471 pages)

Collana

The Texas Pan American Series

Altri autori (Persone)

FosterDavid William

Disciplina

860.9/972

Soggetti

Mexican literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Pre-Columbian Literatures -- 2 The Colonial Period -- 3 Romanticism -- 4 Nineteenth-Century Prose Fiction -- 5 Modernism -- 6 Twentieth-Century Poetry -- 7 Twentieth-Century Theater -- 8 Twentieth-Century Fiction -- 9 The Essay -- 10 Literary Theory and Criticism -- 11 Literary Reviews: A Bibliographical Essay -- 12 Mexican and Mexican American Literary Relations -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Mexico has a rich literary heritage that extends back over centuries to the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. This major reference work surveys more than five hundred years of Mexican literature from a sociocultural perspective. More than merely a catalog of names and titles, it examines in detail the literary phenomena that constitute Mexico's most significant and original contributions to literature. Recognizing that no one scholar can authoritatively cover so much territory, David William Foster has assembled a group of specialists, some of them younger scholars who write from emerging trends in Latin American and Mexican literary scholarship. The topics they discuss include pre-Columbian indigenous writing (Joanna O'Connell), Colonial literature (Lee H. Dowling), Romanticism (Margarita Vargas), nineteenth-century prose fiction (Mario Martín Flores), Modernism (Bart L. Lewis), major twentieth-century genres (narrative, Lanin A. Gyurko; poetry, Adriana García; theater, Kirsten F. Nigro), the essay (Martin S. Stabb), literary criticism (Daniel Altamiranda), and literary journals (Luis Peña). Each essay offers detailed analysis of significant issues and major texts and



includes an annotated bibliography of important critical sources and reference works.