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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812279403321

Autore

Fay Jennifer

Titolo

Film noir : hard-boiled modernity and the cultures of globalization / / Jennifer Fay and Justus Nieland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-26384-1

1-135-26385-X

1-282-44330-5

9786612443305

0-203-86968-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Collana

Routledge film guidebooks

Altri autori (Persone)

NielandJustus

Disciplina

791.43655

Soggetti

Film noir - History and criticism

Crime films - History and criticism

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

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; PREFACE: Down these mean streets, again . . .; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 FILM NOIR AND THE CULTURE OF INTERNATIONALISM; 2 CRITICAL DEBATES: Genre, gender, race; 3 FILM NOIR STYLE AND THE ARTS OF DYING; 4 FRAGMENTS OF ONE INTERNATIONAL NOIR HISTORY; APPENDIX: Suggestions for further reading, watching, discussing; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The term ""film noir"" still conjures images of a uniquely American malaise: hard-boiled detectives, fatal women, and the shadowy hells of urban life. But from its beginnings, film noir has been an international phenomenon, and its stylistic icons have migrated across the complex geo-political terrain of world cinema. This book traces film noir's emergent connection to European cinema, its movement within a cosmopolitan culture of literary and cinematic translation, and its postwar consolidation in the US, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. The authors examine h