Neo-noir /
"Neo-noir knows its past. It knows the rules of the game -- and how to break them. From Point Blank (1998) to Oldboy (2003), from Get Carter (2000) to 36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004), from Catherine Tramell to Max Payne, neo-noir is a transnational global phenomenon. This wide-ranging collection ma...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Wallflower Press,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword: 'If only my leg didn't itch' / Mike Hodges
- Parallax views: an introduction / Mark Bould, Kathrina Glitre and Greg Tuck
- Under the neon rainbow: colour and neo-noir / Kathrina Glitre
- Audio-noir: audiovisuality in neo-modernist noir / Robert Miklitsch
- Paranoia and nostalgia: sonic motifs and songs in neo-noir / Helen Hanson
- The end of work: from Double indemnity to Body heat / Carl Freedman
- Worlds without consequence: two versions of film noir in the 1980s / Edward Gallafent
- From lonely streets to lonely rooms: prefiguration, affective responses and the Max Payne single-player / Greg Singh
- The new lower depths: Paris in French neo-noir cinema / Ginette Vincendeau
- The shadow of outlaws in Asian noir: Hiroshima, Hong Kong and Seoul / Hyangjin Lee
- British neo-noir and reification: Croupier and Dirty pretty things / Mike Wayne
- Laughter in the dark: irony, black comedy and noir in the films of David Lynch, the Coen Brothers and Quentin Tarantino / Greg Tuck
- A woman scorned: the neo-noir erotic thriller as revenge drama / Linda Ruth Williams
- Neo-noir's fatal woman: stardom, survival and Sharon Stone / Rebecca Feasey
- Fatality revisited: the problem of 'anxiety' in psychoanalytic-feminist approaches to film noir / Suzy Gordon
- The thin men: anorexic subjectivity in Fight club and The machinist / Sherryl Vint and Mark Bould
- Memento: pasting ourselves together through cinema / Deborah Thomas.
