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Street with no name : a history of the classic American film noir /

"Andrew Dickos's Street with No Name traces the film noir genre back to its roots in German expressionist cinema and the French cinema of the interwar years. Dickos describes the development of the film noir in America from 1941 through the 1970s and examines how this development expresses...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dickos, Andrew, 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2021.
Edition:Updated edition.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the updated edition
  • Introduction
  • 1. The noir in America
  • 2. The hard-boiled fiction influence
  • 3. Women as seen in the film noir
  • 4. Noir production
  • 5. The noir influence on the French new wave
  • Epilogue : Comments on the classic film noir and the neo-noir
  • Appendix. Credits of selected films noirs.