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Author | : Kevin Grant |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2022-11-29 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476645817 |
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Individual reviews of 90+ films created and released before 1941 are included here in the first title-by-title reference guide to the forerunners of film noir. Silent Hitchcock thrillers and German expressionist masterpieces, French poetic realist dramas and forgotten Hollywood B-movies, pseudo-Freudian gangster films and costume melodramas are among the works covered. The collection spans subgenres and cultures of filmmaking, aiming to demonstrate that the roots of noir were sown far and wide, long before the lasting and mysterious genre flowered in America during the war years.
Author | : Sheri Chinen Biesen |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2005-11-11 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780801882180 |
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Sheri Chinen Biesen challenges conventional thinking on the origins of film noir and finds the genre's roots in the political, social and historical conditions of Hollywood during the Second World War.
Author | : Kevin Grant |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2022-11-23 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 147668748X |
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Individual reviews of 90+ films created and released before 1941 are included here in the first title-by-title reference guide to the forerunners of film noir. Silent Hitchcock thrillers and German expressionist masterpieces, French poetic realist dramas and forgotten Hollywood B-movies, pseudo-Freudian gangster films and costume melodramas are among the works covered. The collection spans subgenres and cultures of filmmaking, aiming to demonstrate that the roots of noir were sown far and wide, long before the lasting and mysterious genre flowered in America during the war years.
Author | : Dennis Lehane |
Publisher | : Akashic Books |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1617751367 |
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In keeping with the tradition of the Noir series, Boston Noir 2 is made up of the works of several celebrated authors whose work is tied together by a common setting. After the massive success of the first Boston Noir, bestselling author Dennis Lehane is back as curator for another anthology of crime stories set in Boston. The Boston Noir 2 collection features reprints of the classic chilling short stories and novel excerpts that brought the world of noir to its knees. Contributors include Pulitzer winners Joyce Carol Oates and John Updike.
Author | : Andrew Dickos |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2002-06-07 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780813122434 |
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Traces the genre of film noir back to German and French roots. Describes the developent of the genre in the United States and examines its expression in modern cinema.
Author | : Mervyn Cooke |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2016-12-08 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1107094518 |
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A stimulating and unusually wide-ranging collection of essays overviewing ways in which music functions in film soundtracks.
Author | : Mark T. Conard |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2007-08-17 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780813191812 |
Download The Philosophy of Film Noir Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From The Maltese Falcon (1941) to Touch of Evil (1958), the classic film noir is easily recognizable for its unusual lighting, sinister plots, and feeling of paranoia. For critics and fans alike, these films defined an era. The Philosophy of Film Noir explores philosophical themes and ideas inherent in classic noir and neo-noir films, establishing connections to diverse thinkers ranging from Camus to the Frankfurt School. The authors, each focusing on a different aspect of the genre, explore the philosophical underpinnings of classic films such as The Big Sleep (1946), Out of the Past (1947), and Pulp Fiction (1994). They show how existentialism and nihilism dominate the genre as they explore profound themes in a vital area of popular culture.
Author | : Diana Royer |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2022-06-07 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476645906 |
Download The Essence of Film Noir Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
American classic films noir, beginning with 1941's The Maltese Falcon and ending with 1950's Sunset Boulevard, and the neo-noir films made from the 1970s onward, share certain thematic aspects, stylistic qualities, and cultural contexts. Their concern with politics, their depiction of con artists, and the way their characters are shaped by America's puritanical religious roots show that these films are examples of a unique American genre, even when the films' directors are German emigres with artistic roots in European Expressionism. The films' psychological depth is revealed stylistically through complex narratives, with select directors generating visual poetry as they deal with sex, violence and betrayal. Some films are based on popular novels inspired by true crime cases. A unique approach to film noir scholarship, this book discusses the genre's thematic aspects, cultural contexts and stylistic qualities. For those films based upon novels, in-depth analysis of the fiction is provided alongside the film version, resulting in a fuller, more thorough understanding of the genre.
Author | : Andrew Spicer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2016-01-29 |
Genre | : Film noir |
ISBN | : 9781138174573 |
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Lucidly written, Film Noir is an accessible informative and stimulating introduction that has a broad appeal to undergraduates, cineastes, film teachers and researchers.Film Noir is an overview of an often celebrated, but also contested, body of films. It discusses film noir as a cultural phenomenon whose history is more extensive and diverse than American black and white crime thrillers of the forties. An extended Background Chapter situates film noir within its cultural context, describing its origin in German Expressionism, French Poetic Realism and in developments within American genres, the gangster/crime thriller, horror and the Gothic romance and its possible relationship to changes in American society.
Author | : William Hare |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2010-07-27 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780786483648 |
Download Early Film Noir Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The name is French and it has connections to German expressionist cinema, but film noir was inspired by the American Raymond Chandler, whose prose was marked by the gripping realism of seedy hotels, dimly lit bars, main streets, country clubs, mansions, cul-de-sac apartments, corporate boardrooms, and flop houses of America. Chandler and the other writers and directors, including James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, Jane Greer, Ken Annakin, Rouben Mamoulian and Mike Mazurki, who were primarily responsible for the creation of the film noir genre and its common plots and themes, are the main focus of this work. It correlates the rise of film noir with the new appetites of the American public after World War II and explains how it was developed by smaller studios and filmmakers as a result of the emphasis on quality within a deliberately restricted element of cities at night. The author also discusses how RKO capitalized on films such as Murder, My Sweet and Out of the Past--two of film noir's most famous titles--and film noir's connection to British noir and the great international triumph of Sir Carol Reed in The Third Man.