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 |
---|---|
Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2008.
|
Edición: | Updated and expanded edition. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: this is where I came in
- 1. The history of an idea
- 2. Modernism and blood melodrama: three case studies
- 3. From dark films to black lists: censorship and politics
- 4. Low is high: budgets and critical discrimination
- 5. Old is new: styles of noir
- 6. The other side of the street
- 7. The noir mediascape
- 8. Noir in the twenty-first century.