Film noir /

This volume reveals film noir's relationship to 19th century and 20th century literary movements, as well as to early European and American cinematic experiments and modernist artistic movements, particularly the French serials of Feuillade and German Expressionism. It traces the development of...

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Other Authors: Pettey, Homer B. (Editor), Palmer, R. Barton, 1946- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
Series:Traditions in American cinema.
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Table of Contents:
  • The cinema of uncertainty and the opacity of information from Louis Feuillade's crime serials to Film noir
  • Warning shadows : German expressionism and American Film noir
  • Hard-boiled tradition and early Film noir
  • Cold war noir
  • Noiring the pitch : the conflicted soundtracks of Out of the past, The blue gardenia and The long goodbye
  • Split screen : sound/music in The stranger/Criss cross
  • Gender and noir
  • The subversive shade of black in Film noir.