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Noir anxiety / Kelly Oliver, Benigno Trigo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oliver, Kelly, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Film noir--United States--History and criticism.
- Film noir.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Noir Anxiety, Kelly Oliver and Benigno Trigo interpret what has been called the "free-floating anxiety" of film noir as concrete apprehensions about race and sexuality.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Dropping the Bombshell; 1. Noir in Black and White; 2. Poisonous Jewels in Murder, My Sweet; 3. Stereotype and Voice in The Lady from Shanghai; 4. Sleeping Beauty and Her Doubles: The (Uncanny) Secret beyond the Door; 5. Mad about Noir: Hitchcock's Vertigo; 6. The Borderlands of Touch of Evil; 7. Jokes in Chinatown: A Question of Place; 8. Franklin's New Noir: Devil in a Blue Dress; 9. Make It Real: Bound's Way Out; 10. The Space of Noir; Notes; Works Cited; Filmography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-280) and index.
- Filmography: p. 281-287.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9457-5
- OCLC:
- 614925174
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