02917nam 22006733u 450 991082502780332120230120035201.01-4744-6776-80-7486-5361-91-282-08793-297866120879360-7486-3031-710.1515/9781474467766(CKB)1000000000748633(EBL)434301(OCoLC)367620089(SSID)ssj0000672917(PQKBManifestationID)11460835(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000672917(PQKBWorkID)10643695(PQKB)10117359(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055499(Au-PeEL)EBL4952188(CaONFJC)MIL208793(DE-B1597)614820(DE-B1597)9781474467766(MiAaPQ)EBC434301(MiAaPQ)EBC4952188(OCoLC)1302164465(EXLCZ)99100000000074863320130418d2009|||| u|| |engurcnu||||||||txtccrFilm Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia[electronic resource]Edinburgh Edinburgh University Pressc20091 online resource (209 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7486-2399-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexFilm 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 PaciFilm noir -- United States -- History and criticismFilm noir -- United StatesFilm noirFilm noir -- United States -- History and criticism.Film noir -- United States.Film noir.791.43655Dixon Wheeler W.1950-1006109AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910825027803321Film noir and the cinema of paranoia2376239UNINA