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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821075703321

Autore

Oliver Kelly <1958->

Titolo

Noir anxiety / / Kelly Oliver, Benigno Trigo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8166-9457-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TrigoBenigno

Disciplina

791.43/655

Soggetti

Film noir - United States - 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 (p. 271-280) and index.

Filmography: p. 281-287.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Dropping the Bombshell; 1. Noir in Black and White; 2. Poisonous Jewels in Murder, My Sweet; 3. Stereotype and Voice in The Lady from Shanghai; 4. Sleeping Beauty and Her Doubles: The (Uncanny) Secret beyond the Door; 5. Mad about Noir: Hitchcock's Vertigo; 6. The Borderlands of Touch of Evil; 7. Jokes in Chinatown: A Question of Place; 8. Franklin's New Noir: Devil in a Blue Dress; 9. Make It Real: Bound's Way Out; 10. The Space of Noir; Notes; Works Cited; Filmography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Noir Anxiety, Kelly Oliver and Benigno Trigo interpret what has been called the "free-floating anxiety" of film noir as concrete apprehensions about race and sexuality.