Proust in Black : Los Angeles, a Proustian fiction = Proust au noir / Fanny Daubigny ; translated by Bruce Whiteman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daubigny, Fanny, author.

Contributor:

Whiteman, Bruce, 1952- translator.

Standardized Title:

Proust au noir. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922. À la recherche du temps perdu.

Proust, Marcel.

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922--Influence.

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.

Crime films--United States--History and criticism.

Crime films.

Motion pictures and literature.

À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust, Marcel).

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

105 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition printed in the United States of America.

Other Title:

Proust au noir

Place of Publication:

San Diego, California : Hyperbole Books, an imprint of San Diego State University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Fuses French Literature, cultural studies, film noir, cinema history, and Los Angeles, the City of Angels, in a dynamic synthesis of imagination and invention that remakes cultural criticism in the here and now. With lucid and evocative readings of Proust, Billy Wilder, Hollywood film noir and more, Daubigny emerges as a literature and film studies critic with a compelling vision and a lyrical prose artistry that tracks manifestations of Proust in and across the dark night of Southern California

Contents:

Prologue

White Nights

Dark Glasses

Black Magic

Fear Noir

Epilogue (The Long Goodbye)

Translator's Afterword Bruce Whiteman.

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781938537813

1938537815

OCLC:

1105631843