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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... narration ) ; noir sets ( urban diners , shabby offices , swank night- clubs ) ; noir decorations ( venetian blinds , neon lights , “ modern ” art ) ; noir costumes ( snap - brim hats , trenchcoats , shoulder pads ) ; and noir acces ...
... narration ) ; noir sets ( urban diners , shabby offices , swank night- clubs ) ; noir decorations ( venetian blinds , neon lights , “ modern ” art ) ; noir costumes ( snap - brim hats , trenchcoats , shoulder pads ) ; and noir acces ...
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... narrator or flashbacks, and Laura is not based on a hard-boiled novel), seemed to belong together. These films would become the prototypical members of an emergent cat- egory, and they would have an unusual influence on French thinking ...
... narrator or flashbacks, and Laura is not based on a hard-boiled novel), seemed to belong together. These films would become the prototypical members of an emergent cat- egory, and they would have an unusual influence on French thinking ...
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... narration and flash- backs that fragmented the story , producing a montage . Frank claimed that Sacha Guitry had been the first to use this technique , in Le roman d'un tricheur ( 1936 ) , but he wondered whether or not Hollywood had ...
... narration and flash- backs that fragmented the story , producing a montage . Frank claimed that Sacha Guitry had been the first to use this technique , in Le roman d'un tricheur ( 1936 ) , but he wondered whether or not Hollywood had ...
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... narration and I can't forgive it here.”) Newsweek said that Murder, My Sweet was a “brass-knuckled thriller” (26 February 1945), and The Hollywood Reporter noted that Paramount was investing heavily in the “hard-boiled, kick-em-in-the ...
... narration and I can't forgive it here.”) Newsweek said that Murder, My Sweet was a “brass-knuckled thriller” (26 February 1945), and The Hollywood Reporter noted that Paramount was investing heavily in the “hard-boiled, kick-em-in-the ...
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... narration in The Sound and the Fury (1929), but he also praised the way Americans used a free-indirect style. In 1938, he had argued that John Dos Passos was the greatest contemporary novelist; as proof, he quoted a passage from USA ...
... narration in The Sound and the Fury (1929), but he also praised the way Americans used a free-indirect style. In 1938, he had argued that John Dos Passos was the greatest contemporary novelist; as proof, he quoted a passage from USA ...
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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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