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More than night : film noir in its contexts /
Film noir evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50smelodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. James Naremore's prize-winning book discusses these pictures, but also shows that the central term is more comp...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2008.
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| Edición: | Updated and expanded edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Film noir evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50smelodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. James Naremore's prize-winning book discusses these pictures, but also shows that the central term is more complex and paradoxical than we realize. It treats noir as a term in criticism, as an expression of artistic modernism, as a symptom of Hollywood censorship and politics, as a market strategy, as an evolving style, and as an idea that circulates through all the media. This new and expanded edition of More Than N. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 384 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780520934450 0520934458 |