Film noir and the cinema of paranoia / / Wheeler Winston Dixon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825027803321
• Autore: Dixon Wheeler W. <1950->
• 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
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43655
• Soggetti: Film noir - United States - History and criticism; Film noir - Great Britain - 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. [175]-185) 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