In a lonely street : film noir, genre, masculinity / Frank Krutnik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krutnik, Frank, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Film noir.

Popular culture--United States.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Discussing the diversity and cultural significance of Film Noir, Krutnik examines films such as The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity and analyses the `tough' thriller in terms of its role in reaffirming a disrupted masculine order.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; 1 Classical Hollywood: film and genre; 2 Genre and the problem of film noir; 3 'Hard-bodied' crime fiction and film noir; 4 Film noir and the popularisation of psychoanalysis; 5 Film noir and America in the 1940's; 6 Masculinity and its discontents; 7 The 'tough' investigative thriller; 8 The 'tough' suspense thriller; 9 The criminal-adventure thriller; 10 A problem in 'algebra': Dead Reckoning and the regimentation of the masculine; Appendix 1 'Hard-boiled' Hollywood: 1940-50; Appendix 2 1940's crime-film cycles; Notes; Index;

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-259) and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-134-97318-7

1-280-60360-7

9786610603602

0-203-13030-8

9780203130308

OCLC:

264399677