In a lonely street : film noir, genre, masculinity / / Frank Krutnik
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| Autore: |
Krutnik Frank <1956->
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| Titolo: |
In a lonely street : film noir, genre, masculinity / / Frank Krutnik
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1991 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/655 |
| Soggetto topico: | Film noir - United States - History and criticism |
| Popular culture - United States | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-259) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preliminaries; Contents; 1 Classical Hollywood: film and genre; 2 Genre and the problem of film noir; 3 'Hard-bodied' crime fiction and film noir; 4 Film noir and the popularisation of psychoanalysis; 5 Film noir and America in the 1940's; 6 Masculinity and its discontents; 7 The 'tough' investigative thriller; 8 The 'tough' suspense thriller; 9 The criminal-adventure thriller; 10 A problem in 'algebra': Dead Reckoning and the regimentation of the masculine; Appendix 1 'Hard-boiled' Hollywood: 1940-50; Appendix 2 1940's crime-film cycles; Notes; Index; |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Discussing the diversity and cultural significance of Film Noir, Krutnik examines films such as The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity and analyses the `tough' thriller in terms of its role in reaffirming a disrupted masculine order. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | In a lonely street |
| ISBN: | 1-134-97318-7 |
| 1-280-60360-7 | |
| 9786610603602 | |
| 0-203-13030-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910783074803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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