LEADER 02941nam 22006973u 450 001 9910825027803321 005 20240430194133.0 010 $a1-4744-6776-8 010 $a0-7486-5361-9 010 $a1-282-08793-2 010 $a9786612087936 010 $a0-7486-3031-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781474467766 035 $a(CKB)1000000000748633 035 $a(EBL)434301 035 $a(OCoLC)367620089 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000672917 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11460835 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000672917 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10643695 035 $a(PQKB)10117359 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055499 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4952188 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208793 035 $a(DE-B1597)614820 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781474467766 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC434301 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4952188 035 $a(OCoLC)1302164465 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000748633 100 $a20130418d2009|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFilm Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aEdinburgh $cEdinburgh University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (209 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7486-2399-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 330 $aFilm 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 606 $aFilm noir -- United States -- History and criticism 606 $aFilm noir -- United States 606 $aFilm noir 615 4$aFilm noir -- United States -- History and criticism. 615 4$aFilm noir -- United States. 615 4$aFilm noir. 676 $a791.43655 676 $a791.43655 700 $aDixon$b Wheeler W.$f1950-$01006109 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825027803321 996 $aFilm noir and the cinema of paranoia$92376239 997 $aUNINA