French and American noir : dark crossings /

There is a longstanding misconception surrounding the term French noir, according to which the post-war French thriller and film noir were merely a development of, or response to, a pre-existing American tradition. This book aims to challenge this understanding of French noir, at once examining the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Rolls, Alistair, 1971- (Autor), Walker-Morrison, Deborah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke [England] ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Colección:Crime files series.
Temas:
1900-1999
Film noir > France > History and criticism.
Film noir > United States > History and criticism.
Noir fiction > History and criticism.
Noir fiction, American > History and criticism.
French fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Films noirs > France > Histoire et critique.
Films noirs > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Roman français > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
American fiction
Film noir
French fiction
Noir fiction
Noir fiction, American
Kriminalroman
France
United States
Frankreich
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Fetishistic noir : Charles Baudelaire and Léo Malet
  • Liberation noir : Boris Vian and the série noire (1)
  • Allegorical noir : Boris Vian and the série noire (2)
  • Noir strangulation (1) : Terry Stewart and Vernon Sullivan
  • Noir strangulation (2) : Amélie Nothomb and intertextuality
  • Jazz : classic French film noir as trans-Atlantic exchange
  • Fatal(e) crossings : figures of the feminine in French and American film noir
  • Americans in Paris
  • From honest thief to media sociopath
  • Double-crossings : reversing the remake.

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