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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... Woman in the Window, and The Lost Weekend The psychotic veteran in Taxi Driver A postmodern image of film noir Noir as fashion City Streets, The Maltese Falcon, and Satan Met a Lady Promotion for The Maltese Falcon Alan Ladd in This Gun ...
... Woman in the Window, and The Lost Weekend The psychotic veteran in Taxi Driver A postmodern image of film noir Noir as fashion City Streets, The Maltese Falcon, and Satan Met a Lady Promotion for The Maltese Falcon Alan Ladd in This Gun ...
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... Woman and Strangers on a Train. During those years, I bought a paperback reprint of Raymond Chandler's Simple Art of Murder and virtually memorized the tough-guy cadences of the title essay. I also saw part of an Orson Welles picture ...
... Woman and Strangers on a Train. During those years, I bought a paperback reprint of Raymond Chandler's Simple Art of Murder and virtually memorized the tough-guy cadences of the title essay. I also saw part of an Orson Welles picture ...
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... woman's body, one of its grisly passages underlined. Vian was briefly jailed and re- quired to pay a fine, and for the rest of his life he suffered from notoriety and ill health. Although he remained active on the literary and cabaret ...
... woman's body, one of its grisly passages underlined. Vian was briefly jailed and re- quired to pay a fine, and for the rest of his life he suffered from notoriety and ill health. Although he remained active on the literary and cabaret ...
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... Woman in the Window, described by one French reviewer as a “bourgeois tragedy,” was later to become a noir classic.9 The forthcoming Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production of The Postman Always Rings Twice was mentioned alongside the initial ...
... Woman in the Window, described by one French reviewer as a “bourgeois tragedy,” was later to become a noir classic.9 The forthcoming Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production of The Postman Always Rings Twice was mentioned alongside the initial ...
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... Woman in the Window (1944), or The Lost Weekend (1945)? Answer on p. 13. (Museum of Modern Art Stills Archive.) characterized by a strong resurgence of Americanism among French directors. FIGURES 1–3. Which of these films was not.
... Woman in the Window (1944), or The Lost Weekend (1945)? Answer on p. 13. (Museum of Modern Art Stills Archive.) characterized by a strong resurgence of Americanism among French directors. FIGURES 1–3. Which of these films was not.
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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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