More than night : film noir in its contexts /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Naremore, James
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.
Edition:Updated and expanded edition.
Subjects:
Film noir > History and criticism.
Films noirs > Histoire et critique.
ART > Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
Film noir
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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