More than night : film noir in its contexts / James Naremore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naremore, James, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film noir--History and criticism.

Film noir.

Film noir--Influence.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 pages)

Edition:

Second edition..

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Film noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940's and '50's-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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface to the 2008 edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction: This Is Where I Came In

1. The History of an Idea

2. Modernism and Blood Melodrama: Three Case Studies

3. From Dark Films to Black Lists: Censorship and Politics

4. Low Is High: Budgets and Critical Discrimination

5. Old Is New: Styles of Noir

6. The Other Side of the Street

7. The Noir Mediascape

8. Noir in the Twenty-first Century

Notes

Bibliography

General Index

Film and Broadcast Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612359392

9781282359390

1282359398

9780520934450

0520934458

OCLC:

609850111