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The philosophy of film noir / edited by Mark T. Conard ; foreword by Robert Porfirio.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.F54 P55 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Film noir--History and criticism.
- Film noir.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 248 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2006]
- Contents:
- Nietzsche and the meaning and definition of noir / Mark T. Conard
- A darker shade: realism in neo-noir / Jason Holt
- Moral clarity and practical reason in film noir / Aeon J. Skoble
- Cherchez la femme fatale: the mother of film noir / Read Mercer Schuchardt
- From Sherlock Holmes to the hard-boiled detective in film noir / Jerold J. Abrams
- Film noir and the meaning of life / Steven M. Sanders
- The horizon of disenchantment: film noir, Camus, and the vicissitudes of descent / Alan Woolfolk
- Symbolism, meaning, and nihilism in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp fiction / Mark T. Conard
- Film noir and the Frankfurt School: America as wasteland in Edgar Ulmer's Detour / Paul A. Cantor
- Knowledge, morality, and tragedy in The killers and Out of the past / Ian Jarvie
- Moral man in the dark city: film noir, the postwar religious revival, and The accused / R. Barton Palmer
- On reason and passion in The Maltese falcon / Deborah Knight
- Ride the pink horse: money, mischance, murder, and the monads of film noir / Alain Silver.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813123771
- OCLC:
- 61878851
- Publisher Number:
- 9780813123776
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