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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... noirlike movies from the years immediately after World War II and show how a political movement or cultural formation within Hollywood strug- gled against censorship and political repression by using dark thrillers for critical ends ...
... noirlike movies from the years immediately after World War II and show how a political movement or cultural formation within Hollywood strug- gled against censorship and political repression by using dark thrillers for critical ends ...
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... noirlike attitude toward “cathartic” violence persisted in vanguard film theory well into the 1970s. Where film noir in particular is concerned, Durgnat was the writer who most forcefully transmitted surrealist values into an English ...
... noirlike attitude toward “cathartic” violence persisted in vanguard film theory well into the 1970s. Where film noir in particular is concerned, Durgnat was the writer who most forcefully transmitted surrealist values into an English ...
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... noirlike offscreen nar- ration is highly poetic, and Robert DeNiro's introspective, ascetic per- formance makes him seem like a Bressonian saint. This irony is reinforced by the film's extraordinarily bloody climax, because the ...
... noirlike offscreen nar- ration is highly poetic, and Robert DeNiro's introspective, ascetic per- formance makes him seem like a Bressonian saint. This irony is reinforced by the film's extraordinarily bloody climax, because the ...
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... noirlike in the established tradition of mod- ern art. To make this point clear, let me offer a few commonplace gen- eralizations about high modernism—bearing in mind that, like film noir, modernism is an idea constructed ex post facto ...
... noirlike in the established tradition of mod- ern art. To make this point clear, let me offer a few commonplace gen- eralizations about high modernism—bearing in mind that, like film noir, modernism is an idea constructed ex post facto ...
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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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