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The Red and the Black : American Film Noir in the 1950s /
"Critical wisdom has it that we said a long goodbye to film noir in the 1950s. Robert Miklitsch begs to differ. Pursuing leads down the back streets and alleyways of cultural history, The Red and the Black proposes that the received rise-and-fall narrative about the genre radically undervalues...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prise de Position: For '50s Noir, or Confessions of a Film Noir Addict; Preface: Generalities, or The Rise and Fall of Classic American Film Noir; Introduction: Coming Attractions, or The Particulars; Part One: '50s Noir and Anticommunism; 1 The Woman on Pier 13: I Married a Communist!; 2 The Red and the Black: "Black Film" and the Red Menace; The Whip Hand: The Red Plague; I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.: Fear of a Red Planet; Walk East on Beacon! "A Red behind Every Tree"; Big Jim McLain: Red Hawaii.
- 3 Pickup on South Street: Out of the Red and Into the BlackPart Two: '50s Noir in the Atomic Age; 4 D.O.A.: Fatality, Sexuality, Radioactivity; 5 "Black Film" and the Bomb: Spies and "Cowboys," Red Professors and Thieves; The Thief: Alien Nation; The Atomic City: Atomic Cowboys and Un-American Indians; Shack Out on 101: Bikinis, Bombshells, and the (Red) Planet of the Apes; City of Fear: Cobalt-60; 6 Kiss Me Deadly: The X Factor, or The "Great Whatsit"; Part Three: New Media and Technologies; 7 Noir en couleur: Color and Widescreen; Black Widow: Red Herring.
- House of Bamboo: "Kimono Girl" (Red), Gaijin Gangster-Detective (Black)Slightly Scarlet: Color Me Bad; A Kiss before Dying: Pink Is the New Black; 8 Niagara: Colored Marilyns; 9 The Glass Web: 3-D, TV, and the Beginning of the End of Classic Noir; Conclusion: The Crimson Kimono: Odds for Tomorrow; Notes; Index.