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Proust in Black : Los Angeles, a Proustian fiction = Proust au noir / Fanny Daubigny ; translated by Bruce Whiteman.
Van Pelt Library PQ2631.R63 Z54713 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daubigny, Fanny, author.
- 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
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