Driven to Darkness : Jewish Emigre Directors and the Rise of Film Noir /

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Driven to Darkness explores the influence of Jewish TmigrT directors and the development of this genre. While filmmakers such as Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, and Edward G. Ulmer have been acknowledged as crucial to the noir canon, the impact of their Jewishness on their work has remaine...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brook, Vincent, 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Jewish motion picture producers and directors.
Film noir.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
Producteurs et realisateurs de cinema juifs > États-Unis.
Films noirs > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Jewish motion picture producers and directors > United States.
Film noir > United States > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Driven to Darkness explores the influence of Jewish TmigrT directors and the development of this genre. While filmmakers such as Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, and Edward G. Ulmer have been acknowledged as crucial to the noir canon, the impact of their Jewishness on their work has remained largely unexamined until now. Through lively and original analyses of key films, Vincent Brook penetrates the darkness, shedding new light on this popular film form and the artists who helped create it.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780813546308

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