More than Night: Film Noir in Its ContextsUniversity of California Press, 14 de jan. de 2008 - 408 páginas "Film noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50s—melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. James Naremore's prize-winning book discusses these pictures, but also shows that the central term is more complex and paradoxical than we realize. It treats noir as a term in criticism, as an expression of artistic modernism, as a symptom of Hollywood censorship and politics, as a market strategy, as an evolving style, and as an idea that circulates through all the media. This new and expanded edition of More Than Night contains an additional chapter on film noir in the twenty-first century. |
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... discuss many of my favorite pictures in detail. I chose instead to view noir from a se- ries of seven broad vantage points, and in the process I pushed against the normal boundaries of the term, insisting that it can't be neatly defined ...
... discuss many of my favorite pictures in detail. I chose instead to view noir from a se- ries of seven broad vantage points, and in the process I pushed against the normal boundaries of the term, insisting that it can't be neatly defined ...
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... discuss examples of film noir from the first decade of the twenty-first century. For advice and help with this task I owe special thanks to Jonathan Rosenbaum and to several other individuals: Dudley Andrew, Barbara Klinger, Veronica ...
... discuss examples of film noir from the first decade of the twenty-first century. For advice and help with this task I owe special thanks to Jonathan Rosenbaum and to several other individuals: Dudley Andrew, Barbara Klinger, Veronica ...
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... discussion of American film noir between 1941 and the present. My topic is large, and in covering such an extensive ... discuss European and British pictures that influenced Hollywood, and I pay a good deal of attention to the French ...
... discussion of American film noir between 1941 and the present. My topic is large, and in covering such an extensive ... discuss European and British pictures that influenced Hollywood, and I pay a good deal of attention to the French ...
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... discuss the economic determinants of Hollywood movies and the widespread critical tendency to canonize certain types of B pictures. I ar- gue that many classics of so-called low-budget film noir were actually intermediate-level ...
... discuss the economic determinants of Hollywood movies and the widespread critical tendency to canonize certain types of B pictures. I ar- gue that many classics of so-called low-budget film noir were actually intermediate-level ...
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... discuss noir in the largest possible context, showing how our conception of the term is shaped not only by films and critical writing, but also by all the media that constitute the information age. This chapter concludes by offering a ...
... discuss noir in the largest possible context, showing how our conception of the term is shaped not only by films and critical writing, but also by all the media that constitute the information age. This chapter concludes by offering a ...
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CENSORSHIP AND POLITICS | 96 |
BUDGETS AND CRITICAL DISCRIMINATION | 136 |
STYLES OF NOIR | 167 |
6 THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET | 220 |
7 THE NOIR MEDIASCAPE | 254 |
8 NOIR IN THE TWENTYFIRST CENTURY | 278 |
NOTES | 311 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 343 |
INDEX | 355 |
Film and Broadcast Index | 379 |
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