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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands : On Classic Film Noir /

Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating wives in a neon-lit urban jungle. But a new generation of writers is pushing aside the fog of cigare...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Miklitsch, Robert, 1953- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Independence unpunished: the female detective in classic film noir / Philippa Gates
  • Women and film noir: Pulp fiction and the woman's picture / Julie Grossman
  • The vanishing love song in film noir / Krin Gabbard
  • Radio, film noir, and the aesthetics of auditory spectacle / Neil Verma
  • Disney noir: "just drawn that way" / J.P. Telotte
  • Detour: driving in a back projection, or forestalled by film noir / Vivian Sobchack
  • Producing noir: Wald, Scott, Hellinger / Andrew Spicer
  • Refuge England: blacklisted American directors and '50s British noir / Robert Murphy
  • A little larceny: labor, leisure, and loyalty in the '50s noir heist film / Mark Osteen
  • Periodizing classic noir: from Stranger on the third floor to the "thrillers of tomorrow" / Robert Miklitsch.