Neo-Noir / Kathrina Glitre, Mark Bould, Greg Tuck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bould, Mark, Editor.

Glitre, Kathrina, Editor.

Hodges, Mike.

Tuck, Greg, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film noir--History and criticism.

Film noir.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Neo-noir knows its past. It knows the rules of the game – and how to break them. From Point Blank (1998) to Oldboy (2003), from Get Carter (2000) to 36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004), from Catherine Tramell to Max Payne, neo-noir is a transnational global phenomenon. This wide-ranging collection maps out the terrain, combining genre, stylistic and textual analysis with Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic and industrial approaches. Essays discuss works from the US, UK, France, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and New Zealand; key figures, such as David Lynch, the Coen Brothers, Quentin Tarantino and Sharon Stone; major conventions, such as the femme fatale, paranoia, anxiety, the city and the threat to the self; and the use of sound and colour.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Foreword: ‘If Only My Leg Didn’t Itch’

Parallax Views: An Introduction

1. Under the Neon Rainbow: Colour and Neo-Noir

2. Audio-Noir: Audiovisuality in Neo-Modernist Noir

3. Paranoia and Nostalgia: Sonic Motifs and Songs in Neo-Noir

4. The End of Work: From Double Indemnity to Body Heat

5. Worlds Without Consequence: Two Versions of Film Noir in the 1980s

6. From Lonely Streets to Lonely Rooms: Prefiguration, Affective Responses and the Max Payne Single-Player

7. The New Lower Depths: Paris in French Neo-Noir Cinema

8. The Shadow of Outlaws in Asian Noir: Hiroshima, Hong Kong and Seoul

9. British Neo-Noir and Reification: Croupier and Dirty Pretty Things

10. Laughter in the Dark: Irony, Black Comedy and Noir in the Films of David Lynch, the Coen Brothers and Quentin Tarantino

11. A Woman Scorned: The Neo-Noir Erotic Thriller as Revenge Drama

12. Neo-Noir’s Fatal Woman: Stardom, Survival and Sharon Stone

13. Fatality Revisited: The Problem of ‘Anxiety’ in Psychoanalytic-Feminist Approaches to Film Noir

14. The Thin Men: Anorexic Subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist

15. Memento: Pasting Ourselves Together Through Cinema

Filmography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters, filmographies and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780231850476

OCLC:

908671166