A companion to film noir / edited by Andrew Spicer and Helen Hanson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spicer, Andrew, 1953-

Hanson, Helen

Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film noir--History and criticism.

Film noir.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xx, 522 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Summary:

"An authoritative companion that offers a wide-ranging thematic survey of this enduringly popular cultural form and includes scholarship from both established and emerging scholars as well as analysis of film noir's influence on other media including television and graphic novels. Covers a wealth of new approaches to film noir and neo-noir that explore issues ranging from conceptualization to cross-media influences Features chapters exploring the wider 'noir mediascape' of television, graphic novels and radio Reflects the historical and geographical reach of film noir, from the 1920s to the present and in a variety of national cinemas Includes contributions from both established and emerging scholars "-- Provided by publisher.

"Film noir fascinates cineastes like no other genre. This authoritative companion features the work of a highly distinguished group of international scholars, adopting a thematic approach that examines key topics rather than focusing on individual titles or auteurs. It reflects the expanding purview of analysts by including novel subjects such as neo-noir, international noir movies, and 'noir' as expressed in other forms such as comics, graphic novels, posters, radio and television. Informed by cutting-edge scholarship, this collection extends and deepens the developing understanding of this enduringly captivating mode of cultural expression"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / James Naremore

Introduction : the problem of film noir / Andrew Spicer

Part I. Conceptualizing film noir

The strange case of film noir / Robert Porfirio

Genre, hybridity, heterogeneity : or, the noir-SF-vampire-zombie-splatter-romance-comedy-action-thriller problem / Mark Bould

A wet emptiness : the phenomenology of film noir / Henrik Gustafsson

Cinephilia and film noir / Corey K. Creekmur

Part II. Hidden, hybrid, and transmedia histories and influences

Precursors to film noir / Wheeler Winston Dixon

Crisscrossed? : film noir and the politics of mobility and exhange / Alastair Phillips

Film noir and horror / Peter Hutchings

Borderings : the film noir semi-documentary / R. Barton Palmer

Crime fiction and film noir / William Marling

Film noir, American painting and photography : questions of influence / Tom Ryall

Part III. Social, industrial, and commerical contexts

The politics of film noir / Brian Neve

The black typewriter : who wrote film noir? / David Wilt

Film noir and studio production practices / Geoff Mayer

Film noir and post-studio production practices / John Berra

Selling noir : stars, gender, and genre in film noir posters and publicity / Mary Beth Haralovich

Part IV. The fabric of film noir : style and performance

Out of the shadows : noir lighting and Hollywood cinematography / Patrick Keating

The ambience of film noir : soundscapes, design, and mood / Halen Hanson

In a lonely tone : music in film noir / David Butler

Acting and performance in film noir / Donna Peberdy

Part V. Identities and film noir

Film noir and subjectivity / Christophe Gelly

Women in film noir / Yvonne Tasker

"The corpse on reprieve" : film noir's cautionary tales of "tough guy" masculinity / Gaylyn Studlar

Ethinicity and race in American film noir / Dan Flory

The climb and the chase : film noir and the urban scene - representations of the city in three classic noirs / Murray Pomerance

Part VI. Noir in other forms

Radio noir in the USA / Jesse Schlotterbeck

Television noir / Steven Sanders

"It rhymes with lust" : the twisted history of noir comics / James Lyons

Part VII. New geographies of film noir

Film noir in Asia : historicizing South Korean crime thrillers / Nikki J.Y. Lee adn Julian Stringer

Bombay Noir / Lalitha Gopalan

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.

ISBN:

1444336274

9781444336276

OCLC:

832261470

Publisher Number:

99957676977