LEADER 03113oam 22005294a 450 001 9910162735703321 005 20210111221044.0 010 $a0-252-09912-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000001040939 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001724054 035 $a(OCoLC)958469826 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse57065 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4792737 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001040939 100 $a20160913d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Red and the Black $eAmerican Film Noir in the 1950s /$fRobert Miklitsch 210 $aUrbana $cUniversity of Illinois Press$d2016 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations (black and white) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 $a0-252-08219-2 311 $a0-252-04068-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"Critical wisdom has it that we said a long goodbye to film noir in the 1950s. Robert Miklitsch begs to differ. Pursuing leads down the back streets and alleyways of cultural history, The Red and the Black proposes that the received rise-and-fall narrative about the genre radically undervalues the formal and thematic complexity of '50s noir and the dynamic segue it effected between the spectacular expressionism of '40s noir and early, modernist neo-noir. Mixing scholarship with a fan's devotion to the crooked roads of critique, Miklitsch autopsies marquee films like D.O.A., Niagara, and Kiss Me Deadly plus a number of lesser-known classics. Throughout, he addresses the social and technological factors that dealt deuce after deuce to the genre--its celebrated style threatened by new media and technologies such as TV and 3-D, color and widescreen, its born losers replaced like zombies by All-American heroes, the nation rocked by the red menace and nightmares of nuclear annihilation. But against all odds, the author argues, inventive filmmakers continued to make formally daring and socially compelling pictures that remain surprisingly, startlingly alive. Cutting-edge and entertaining, The Red and the Black reconsiders a lost period in the history of American movies"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aHISTORY / Social History$2bisacsh 606 $aPERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production$2bisacsh 606 $aPERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism$2bisacsh 606 $aFilm noir$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aHISTORY / Social History. 615 7$aPERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production. 615 7$aPERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. 615 0$aFilm noir$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a791.436556 686 $aPER004030$aPER004010$aHIS054000$2bisacsh 700 $aMiklitsch$b Robert$f1953-$01106326 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910162735703321 996 $aThe Red and the Black$92888018 997 $aUNINA