Film noir and the cinema of paranoia / Wheeler Winston Dixon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dixon, Wheeler W., 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film noir--United States--History and criticism.

Film noir.

Film noir--Great Britain--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia is an overview of 20th- and 21st-century noir and fatalist film practice from 1945 onwards. The book demonstrates the ways in which American cinema has inculcated a climate of fear in our daily lives, as reinforced, starting in the 1950's, by television, and later videocassettes, the web, and the Internet, to create, by the early 21st century a hypersurveillant atmosphere in which no one can avoid the barrage of images that continually assault our senses. The book begins with the return of American soldiers from World War II, 'liberated' from war in the Paci

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The Dream of Return; CHAPTER 2 The Postwar Bubble; CHAPTER 3 1950's Death Trip; CHAPTER 4 The Flip Side of the 1960's; CHAPTER 5 The Failure of Culture; CHAPTER 6 Living in Fear; Appendix: A Gallery of Classic Noir 'Heavies'; Works Cited and Consulted; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-185) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-6776-8

0-7486-5361-9

1-282-08793-2

9786612087936

0-7486-3031-7

OCLC:

367620089