Author: Raymond BordePublisher: City Lights Books
ISBN: 9780872864122
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This first book published on film noir established the genre--a classic, at last in translation.
Film Noir
Author: James NaremorePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198791744
Category : Film noir
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Film noir is one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history. First associated with Hollywood thrillers of teh 1940s and 50s, film noir has become fully international in its nature and appeal, attracting the interest of great directors right up to our present time. In this Very Short Introduction James Naremore analyses classic examples of the films, as well as a few lesser known noir pieces, highlighting their key themes and styles, and their major literary sources. He considers their methods of dealing with censorship, and looks to the future of noir in a world of digital media and video streaming."--Provided by publisher.
Detour
Author: Noah William IsenbergPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1844572390
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
In classic noir style, Detour features mysterious deaths, changes of identity, an unforgettable femme fatale called Vera (Ann Savage), and, in Roberts, a wretched, masochistic antihero."
Black & White & Noir
Author: Paula RabinowitzPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231114813
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The first book to treat issues of race and ethnicity as related to noir, offering a cultural history of twentieth-century America through episodic readings of films, photographs, and literature.
Orson Welles
Author: Orson WellesPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578062096
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
It is only in the editing studio that he possesses "absolute control." With scholarly erudition, Welles revels in the plays of Shakespeare and discusses their adaptation to stage and screen. He assesses rival directors and eminent actors, offers penetrating analyses of Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, Chimes at Midnight, and The Third Man, and declares that he never made a film that lacked an ethical point-of-view. Book jacket.
Philosophy, Black Film, Film Noir
Author: Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271046880
Category : African American motion picture producers and directors
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"Examines how African-American as well as international films deploy film noir techniques in ways that encourage philosophical reflection. Combines philosophy, film studies, and cultural studies"--Provided by publisher.
More Than Night
Author: James NaremorePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520254023
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
"Supplies the first study of film noir that achieves the sort of intellectual seriousness, depth of research, degree of critical insight, and level of writing that this group of films deserves."—Tom Gunning, Modernism and Modernity
Author: Scott Adams
Author: Mervyn CookeDames in the Driver's Seat
Author: Jans B. WagerPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292773870
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
With its focus on dangerous, determined femmes fatales, hardboiled detectives, and crimes that almost-but-never-quite succeed, film noir has long been popular with moviegoers and film critics alike. Film noir was a staple of classical Hollywood filmmaking during the years 1941-1958 and has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity since the 1990s. Dames in the Driver's Seat offers new views of both classical-era and contemporary noirs through the lenses of gender, class, and race. Jans Wager analyzes how changes in film noir's representation of women's and men's roles, class status, and racial identities mirror changes in a culture that is now often referred to as postmodern and postfeminist. Following introductory chapters that establish the theoretical basis of her arguments, Wager engages in close readings of the classic noirs The Killers, Out of the Past, and Kiss Me Deadly and the contemporary noirs L. A. Confidential, Mulholland Falls, Fight Club, Twilight, Fargo, and Jackie Brown. Wager divides recent films into retro-noirs (made in the present, but set in the 1940s and 1950s) and neo-noirs (made and set in the present but referring to classic noir narratively or stylistically). Going beyond previous studies of noir, her perceptive readings of these films reveal that retro-noirs fulfill a reactionary social function, looking back nostalgically to outdated gender roles and racial relations, while neo-noirs often offer more revisionary representations of women, though not necessarily of people of color.
